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I suggest he’s going to give you what we have in our Renault’s in Israel: state of charge prediction at destination. Added bonus: automatic route planning via Super Chargers. Here’s my full prediction.

Kinda funny reading all this stuff. I’ve sat through 90+ automated Better Place switches without a hitch. Over the network (while the receiver works out what to do following the bankruptcy) we’re still seeing 300+ switches per day and failure rates are very low. The question is not if it can be...

Exactly my point. If Tesla can replicate the Model S down to a $20,000 market all's fine. I'm really not a Tesla hater, I really would love one of the cars, it's just that 20,000 cars per year in the US is not going to change ANYTHING for the wider world. It certainly isn't going to drive...

I've written a featured OpEd at the Times of Israel replying to this today drawing on my experience driving the battery switch capable Renault Fluence ZE in Israel. It may be of interest to some here. Tesla is selling the wrong story on electric cars Extract: The Tesla Model S is a...

I've published my longer take on Shai and Better Place. I spoke to the New York Times guys last night. Shai Agassi Out Of Better Place (Or Is He?) | Israellycool

Anyone talking about impact on batteries? You all own your own, how many times a week will you want to do this. Are the stations positioned for the base battery or just the big ones? $100k seems steep, seeing as how Better Place stations have been talked about at $500k and coming down with...

I will admit to taking the long route home a couple of times... and every now and then I choose the route with the most traffic lights through upscale neighbourhoods so I can have fun embarrassing the BMWs, Mercs and Lexuses (Lexi?) at the lights with my stupid golf cart Renault ;-)

Wow, best you can think of? No, displacement from other cars especially small local deliveries in place of my company's 6 year old diesel delivery van when moving 10 laptops or similar. I'd say big win. Also much lower use of wife's big 4x4. I've also taken many people to/from Jerusalem barely...

My latest piece is up at Green Car Reports. 100 days with my EV including Likes and Dislikes (yes I have some). My post at Israellycool also includes live graphs showing my daily drive distribution. I never really paid attention to this but my pattern is absolutely perfect for my EV. If...

I've just posted a short video on my blog showing how the navigation system (named Oscar) in the Better Place car plans routes to accommodate battery switches. It might be of interest here How Can I Drive To Eilat?

It's a loan, got to make the payments on it. That's a lot of pund coins in the payment meters.

Full post up on the twitter exploits of Shai Agassi yesterday driving a complete circuit of Israel. He drove the equivalent of North to South of California in an EV with a battery half the size of the smallest Tesla S. Better Place Distance Dash

Just one point is worth making again: Better Place insist on the ability to home charge overnight. They just won't sell a car to street parking Tel Aviv residents at the moment. Battery switches are not seen as a normal way to get energy into the car: they are supplemental only on longer trips...

I went to bed too early. He didn't stay in Eilat, he just took a picture there. He went home too so his total was 1,150 km or 715 miles for the day. That was 22:54, first tweet was 05:51 so that was 15 hours. 76 kmh or 48 mph moving averages and with Israel's roads and traffic and human biology...

Shai Agassi tweeted a journey today. He started somewhere near Tel Aviv, drove up to the Lebanon border and Mt Hermon then down to Eilat. Just over 1000km in around 10 hours I think. His final tweet showed 1000km and a near 100% battery. A couple of the switch stations in the south he used are...