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Buying the car and hot swapping the batteries (with an automated machine similar to going through a car wash, no less) was the vision of A Better Place, a short
by perkee 8y ago
Buying the car and hot swapping the batteries (with an automated machine similar to going through a car wash, no less) was the vision of A Better Place, a short lived Israeli startup. That company failed, but I wouldn't say it's impossible by a long shot.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-place https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...
- perkee 8y agoAnd here, for comparison, is the original Wired hype article I remember first reading which led me to wondering "hey what ever happened…" a few years ago. https://www.wired.com/2008/08/ff-agassi/ https://www.wired.com/2008/08/ff-agassi/