We read an interesting report in Automotive News recently about how Israel is becoming another centre for automotive technology. In fact it has been a slow burn country for vehicle development. Motoring Weekly has written about Better Place that moved to Israel from Silicon Valley before collapsing in a heap. Back in 2008, the original version of General Motors opened a … [Read more...]
A Better Place Far Away
What happened to Better Place, the company that was going to build the charging network across the world that would supercharge the sales of electric cars? When I was producing Motoring Weekly podcasts back in 2008 to 2010, this company was in the news almost weekly. Better Place was founded by Shai Agassi, an Israeli tech developer who like many technology people was in the … [Read more...]
Intel and Mobileye
Around about a year ago Intel announced that it was buying Mobileye, an Israeli company specialising in technology for autonomous vehicles. At the time they were competing for a very lucrative market, and like many emerging markets, this one is starting to see the number of market players shrink through mergers and (mostly) acquisitions. I’ve written about many of the … [Read more...]
Autocars
Autocars was an Israeli company that was founded by Itzak Shubinsky, with the help of Reliant Cars from the UK. The company started by building kits of Reliant's three wheelers and then the Reliant Regent 4 wheeled van. The first “true” Autocars model was the Sussita – designed by Reliant and shipped from the UK in kit form with a 1 litre Ford engine originally found in the … [Read more...]
