Better Place, By the Numbers

Can Better Place, Shai Agassi's ambitious electric vehicle startup, actually create a viable alternative transportation infrastructure? Greentech Media attempted to answer the question with a dollars and cents breakdown of both Better Place and electric vehicles. Here, we try to simplify the issue even further.

Better Place has developed a battery-swap
station that lets drivers to exchange their car's depleted battery pack
for a full one in less than a minute. The
more battery-swap stations ...