Blog: The driving dream only limited by an electric car’s range

Imagine a brave new future in which the world’s motorways are punctuated with stopping off points where cars low on juice can fill up the tank again, allowing intrepid drivers to make journeys hundreds of miles long. Doesn’t sound particularly futuristic, does it? But I’m not talking petrol pumps here. I’m talking electric batteries. Picture […]

Electric car battery switching firm calls it a day

An Israeli car firm which aimed to replace petrol stations with electric battery switching stations has called it a day after just a year in operation. Better Place pioneered the idea of switching batteries to counter the problems with electric cars. It had a network of charging points and battery switch stations in Denmark and […]