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Rodney Brooks replied to Rodney Brooks's discussion 'Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi to Standardize Electric Car Recharging'

This is the Betamax vs VHS thing all over again. Have no lessons been learned. Is this ego or a function of design. Why make a new industry/technology so hard for consumer to adopt?

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Matthias Ludwig replied to richard's discussion 'Another Monopoly as Intel ? The model has some big problems !!!!!'

Some comments to your analogy with the computer market: If Better Place is successful, they will be like the network operators for cell phones (AT&T, T-Mobile, NTT DOCOMO) putting all the parts and pieces together which form the mobile network makin…

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Oliver Jahnel replied to Matthias Ludwig's discussion 'Bericht - VDA-Chef Wissmann erteilt Better Place eine Absage' in the group visions for germany

Es ist schon unglaublich wie borniert diese VDA-Bonzen sind, von wegen "gesichtslose Mobilitätskultur", das würde ich eher als "gesichtslose Profitkultur.." bezeichnen, kann mich noch gut erinnern an Forschungs- Entwicklungsberichte, in denen von Se…

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Nelly commented on Olivier's group 'United Kingdom for Better Place'

Just to check everyone spotted this, from October 2009: Better Place has proposed a London pilotproject that would aim to install to service50,000 electric cars by 2015 at a cost of £200 million: Better Place envisage an infrastructure withbattery…

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Jacques Talbot replied to richard's discussion 'Another Monopoly as Intel ? The model has some big problems !!!!!'

This is becoming interesting! Matthias, could you elaborate a little bit on the parameters of the model which allows to calculate how many batteries must be present in the stations for each battery type, depending on the size of the country, the ti…

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Matthias Ludwig replied to richard's discussion 'Another Monopoly as Intel ? The model has some big problems !!!!!'

Can you please show us your source where you have got the information that Better Place want "to control the battery" ? Better Place has stated since the switch demonstration and before that the switch station will support different battery types.…

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Kay Plaumann added a discussion

Authentication to the AutOS in-car platform or Service stations

I question myself how the customers will authenticate and do the payment trough the AutOS in car plattform or with the service stations /points ? How will the business model look like? There are several payment methods from public transport or m…

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Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi to Standardize Electric Car Recharging 5 Replies

Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi to Standardize Electric Car Recharging to set a unified standard for electric vehicle recharging stations." Trying to spread adoption of electric cars, five major J…

Tagged: standard, chadelmo, cars, electric, Nissan

Started by Rodney Brooks in News/ Events. Last reply by Rodney Brooks 40 minutes ago.

Another Monopoly as Intel ? The model has some big problems !!!!! 3 Replies

Sorry guys but I dont think this model works or should work. Trying to control the battery means a "standard" designed by "one company" and aims to put the standard for all motor companies. If…

Started by richard in Planet Better Place Feedback. Last reply by Matthias Ludwig 5 hours ago.

Authentication to the AutOS in-car platform or Service stations

I question myself how the customers will authenticate and do the payment trough the AutOS in car plattform or with the service stations /points ? How will the business model look like? There are…

Started by Kay Plaumann in Planet Better Place Feedback 7 hours ago.