Comments on: What Is It Like Having A Battery Inserted Where The Sun Doesn’t Shine?

By: To The Top Of The Hill And Down Again x3 | Israellycool

To The Top Of The Hill And Down Again x3 | Israellycool — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:28:03 +0000

[...] or switching but I don’t see the point. All it takes is one or two hours recharging or one switch and you don’t have to think about it. Range anxiety has turned into range [...]

By: Now This Is Going To Be Painless – Battery Switch | Israellycool

Now This Is Going To Be Painless – Battery Switch | Israellycool — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:34:52 +0000

[...] Battery Switch Brian of London | May 13, 2012 | 0 commentsYou may remember a few months back I made an amateur video with my hand held iPhone showing the complete process of having a battery sw….Well here is a better one filmed with proper cameras made by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield for Green Car [...]

By: Electric Vehicle Stimulating Simulation – iEV For iPhone | Israellycool

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:17:34 +0000

[...] whilst driving a test model of the Better Place Renault Fluence ZE to directly check the simulation. It agreed with the onboard battery percentage readings to within 1% over two roughly 12km drives.History by car: SuitabilityEach time you start and stop a journey you need to run the app and hit [...]

By: Electric Vehicle Range Anxiety Solved : Israellycool

Electric Vehicle Range Anxiety Solved : Israellycool — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:19:49 +0000

[...] I drove to the battery switch station the other day, we used the trip computer and the screen at the start of the journey is presented [...]

By: Better Place Renault Fluence Z.E. battery swap video

Better Place Renault Fluence Z.E. battery swap video — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:32:22 +0000

[...] into the station is just like driving through an automatic car wash,” wrote blogger “Brian of London” (on location in Israel), “Once you’re level with a big yellow sign you put the car in neutral, [...]

By: Electric car battery swapping from the driver’s seat (video) | PluginEurope.com

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:01:21 +0000

[...] Read blogger Brian of London’s full report on the experience here. [...]

By: Morris the Katz

Morris the Katz — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:39:44 +0000

Electric cars won’t really take off until they have unlimited range, based upon the technology Brian of London has described. Sure, many people can buy an electric car for commuter duty and keep a gasoline or diesel for long-distance drives, but that’ll represent only a small (no more than 10%) market segment. A very fuel efficient gas-powered vehicle such as a Prius will not cost much more to operate than one of these babies and if you have a Prius, you don’t NEED another vehicle for long-distance driving.

What this will do is make a Chevy Volt prematurely obsolete. Maybe.

By: Brian of London

Brian of London — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:54:50 +0000

And remember, if a car is $50k in the US that means at least $100k in Israel. If it could somehow have import tax of 20% like the Better Place instead of 89% that would make a big difference but import tax rate is not related to notions of green-ness, as far as I can tell it’s related to whether some part of the car can be determined to be made in Israel (which is intellectually the case for the BP car).

By: Brian of London

Brian of London — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:46:53 +0000

You’ve obviously never listened to Shire Network News! I would recommend going and listening to the last show, you might like it!

http://snnsite.com/snn-podcast/podcast/144-podcast-goes-out-in-a-blaze-of-glory-189

By: David Rose

David Rose — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:40:31 +0000

In addition to what Brian has so correctly written, the batteries(!) of Tesla are as of date non-switchable, therefore overtime suffer wear and tear, quite expensive and the car itself, the basic version is close to $50K, not at all in the price range of the average family anywhere.