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Re:Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensiv... by andruby on Monday May 23, 2016 @06:59AM (#11753030)
Shai Agassi tried that with Better Place. It raised about $850M and filed for bankruptcy after 6 years. Less than 1400 cars were using the 38 deployed swapping stations in Israel and Denmark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place

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