https://ilovesymposia.com/enContents © 2019 <a href="mailto:jni.soma@fastmail.com">Juan Nunez-Iglesias</a> <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"> <img alt="Creative Commons License BY" style="border-width:0; margin-bottom:12px;" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png"></a>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:09:10 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://ilovesymposia.com/2013/05/25/a-sad-day-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/Juan Nunez-Iglesias<div><p></p><p>Apparently <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/05/better-place-bankruptcy-report/">Better Place is preparing for bankruptcy</a>. I wrote an <a href="http://ilovesymposia.com/2009/07/18/the-electric-car-of-the-present/">optimistic post</a> about Better Place years ago, when they were just about to launch. They created a swappable battery system for electric cars along with corresponding battery swap stations. In my opinion, these were the most credible cure to range anxiety for electric vehicles. Batteries take a long time to charge, even on Tesla's <a href="http://www.teslamotors.com/charging#/onthego">Supercharger stations</a>, which they ludicrously refer to as "super-quick" just because they can give you half a charge in half an hour. A swap in Better Place's stations took two minutes.</p> <p>Adoption of electric vehicles will remain minuscule until the range problem can be fixed. With transport accounting for about 20% of CO₂ emissions worldwide, significant EV adoption would be a massive boon to the fight against climate change. And with Better Place out of the picture, that goal became just a little bit less real.</p></div>carsclimate changeco2 emissionselectric vehiclesEVsTeslatransportationhttps://ilovesymposia.com/2013/05/25/a-sad-day-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/Fri, 24 May 2013 16:16:37 GMT