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by tdicola 4444 days ago
"Better Place failed because swappable batteries don't make sense." Did we read the same article? It seemed pretty clear there were incredible management missteps like burning $500k/day with only a few hundred cars being sold or the CEO going excommunicado for months that destroyed the company. Even with the right tech it sounds like they were setup for failure.