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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

Shai Agassi

Then prime minister Ehud Olmert, center, shakes hands with Israeli investor Shai Agassi, left, and Carlos Ghosn at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, January 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
January 8, 2020, 5:38 pm
Fugitive ex-Nissan boss summoned by Lebanese prosecutor over Israel visit
Carlos Ghosn, who escaped prosecution for financial crimes in Japan, may face charges over 2008 trip that broke local law and boycott of Jewish state
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Carlos Ghosn (R) and then Israeli president Shimon Peres at a meeting at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, January 21, 2008. (Michal Fattal/Flash90)
January 2, 2020, 5:32 pm
Lebanese lawyers want ex-chief of Nissan prosecuted over 2008 Israel trip
Legal report argues that after he escaped Japan, Carlos Ghosn should stand trial in Lebanon ‘for the crime of having entered an enemy country and violated the boycott law’
By AFP
'Totaled" author Brian Blum. (Courtesy)
October 16, 2017, 11:20 am
Author of new book on Better Place crash to speak at launch in Jerusalem
‘Totaled’ author Brian Blum will discuss the lessons of Shai Agassi’s disaster with Times of Israel readers on October 19
By Matthew Kalman
An empty battery gauge on a Better Place Renault Fluence. (Brian Blum)
September 4, 2017, 11:21 pm
The electric car lovers who kept plugging along after Better Place died
One of Israel’s biggest startup flops left behind a community of people who refused to end their flirtation with gas-free driving. I should know. I was one of them
By Brian Blum
GotIt screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)
April 7, 2014, 7:19 pm
Businesses love ‘social shopping’ app, says CEO
It may look like half a dozen others, but GotIT really is different, according to Tal Agassi
By David Shamah
Better Place offices near the Glilot Interchange in central Israel were closed on May 26, 2013 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)
November 22, 2013, 2:45 am
Local energy startup buys remaining Better Place shares
Gnrgy gets assets of bankrupt electric car company for bargain basement price of less than $450,000
By AP
Charging a Better Place car in 2013. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90)
August 25, 2013, 10:05 pm
Bid by car owners to buy Better Place fails
Entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz unable to make $1 million payment to Israeli electric car company’s liquidator
By JTA
Dan's electric bus is displayed in Tel Aviv, Monday (photo credit: Screen shot, Globes)
August 6, 2013, 9:20 am
Tel Aviv gets its first electric bus
Dan company says pilot vehicle is the first of 250 to serve the city within five years
By Asher Zeiger
A Better Place Renault Fluence ZE vehicle in Tel Aviv in 2012. (photo credit: CC-BY btrplc, Flickr)
July 10, 2013, 3:03 pm
Drivers given green light to buy bankrupt electric car firm
Group led by solar-energy entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz wins court approval to take control of Better Place Israel for less than $5 million
By Gavriel Fiske
Better Place offices near the Glilot Interchange in central Israel were closed on May 26, 2013 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)
July 9, 2013, 10:49 pm
Drivers lead an electrifying battle to recharge Better Place
Inspired by the pioneering vision and loving their cars, a group of owners coalesce around perennial entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz to try to salvage the bankrupt firm
By Jessica Steinberg
A Better Place Renault Fluence ZE vehicle in Tel Aviv in 2012. (photo credit: CC-BY btrplc, Flickr)
June 6, 2013, 4:09 am
Why did Israel’s promising electric car maker fail?
Insiders say Better Place burned through cash pursuing a global vision instead of focusing on a single market to demonstrate success
By Ben Sales
A Better Place recharging station in Tel Aviv i in 2012. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)
May 28, 2013, 5:06 am
The car’s out of juice, but the Better Place vision may drive on
A day after the pioneering electric car company announced bankruptcy, some argue that the eulogies are premature
By David Shamah
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. (photo credit: image capture from Channel 2/Al Manar)
May 26, 2013, 4:37 pm
War and peace… without a Better Place
The Israeli press reports on Nasrallah rattling his saber as his men charge into Syria, and Shimon Peres asks Abbas to make a deal
By Ilan Ben Zion
A man refuels a Better Place car marketed by Renault at the company's demonstration center in Ramat Hasharon (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
May 26, 2013, 10:15 am
Better Place files for bankruptcy
Innovative Israeli company burned through more than $800 million in five years, but sold barely 2,000 of its electric cars
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustrative: A "Better Place" electric car outside the company's sales center in Tel Aviv (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)
May 24, 2013, 11:41 pm
Electric car trailblazer Better Place to file for bankruptcy within days
Israeli company runs out of steam due to low demand, having burned through more than $800 million but sold barely 2,000 vehicles
By Yifa Yaakov and David Shamah
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