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Renewable energy is a very competitive and brutal industry

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From Clean Technica by Giles Parkinson | May 27, 2013

This is a grim reality:  only the most efficient, the most well managed firms in the renewable energy/green tech industry will survive.   In an earlier post, we saw list of deceased/bankrupt solar firms  and the list is long.  This is not for faint hearted and weak.  Only the best (and the paranoid) survive.

Here is another casualty - No Better Place, a car battery swapping center is applying for liquidation. It is mired in a $560 million debt.  Its business concept is:  swap batteries, instead of charging for a day, in a matter of minutes.  Its failure is allegedly to have been caused on a wrong logic:  that oil is headed for a $200 /per barrel and frequent recharging.  But then came l00 mile range batteries, better battery technology (see post on liquid batteries by Sadoway).  The business environment changed, but the business model was left behind.  It also failed to get proper partnership with car manufacturers firmed up

One has to be a good businessman and sharp entrepreneur if you will go into this industry and has to be sharp in observing shifts in the trends.

Top Cleantech Stories Of The Day! - Battery car swapping firm goes under, World Cup solar stadium

Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world's #1 cleantech or clean energy website: BYD e6 Electric Car To Be Sold In The US (In Bulk Only) No Better Place — Battery Swapping Company Going Bankrupt First Brazil 2014 World Cup Solar Powered Stadium Opens Affordable Solar Announces Solar Leasing For New Mexico California Electric Car Rebates Mapped (Interactive!) High-School Student Builds 900 HP Electric Honda S2000 Excerpts: BYD e6 Electric Car To Be Sold In The US (In Bulk Only) The Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD will sell the BYD e6 electric car in the United States, but only to fleet buyers (basically people that buy many cars per order). BYD sold 1,700 plug-in vehicles last year. It fell short of its sales expectations and its share value dropped by 75%. (Maybe Volvo can give them some advice?) One rumor for how BYD is going to pick itself up is that it will switch to … Read More BYD e6 Electric Car To Be Sold In The US (In Bulk Only) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » No Better Place — Battery Swapping Company Going Bankrupt This article originally appeared on RenewEconomy. Better Place, the electric car network operator that aspired to transform the world's car industry within a decade, is about to file for liquidation – an apparent victim of wanting to do too much, too soon, or just not doing it very well. Report of the decision to liquidate the pioneer of battery swap electric vehicles circulated over the weekend and were confirmed late Sunday, Australian time, by the … Read More No Better Place — Battery Swapping Company Going Bankrupt was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » First Brazil 2014 World Cup Solar Powered Stadium Opens As preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil hit the final stretch, the first of many solar-powered stadiums being used for next year's tournament was recently put in the spotlight with an inauguration event. PV Tech noted the Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto (otherwise known as the Mineirão) in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil recently held the opening of their new rooftop solar array. Attendees for the ribbon cutting ceremony included: Minas Gerais state Governor … Read More First Brazil 2014 World Cup Solar Powered Stadium Opens was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Affordable Solar Announces Solar Leasing For New Mexico Affordable Solar has announced they will now be offering a solar panel leasing program to residents in New Mexico in cooperation with Sunnova Energy Corp. For less than the current electricity costs, many New Mexico locals will be able to switch to renewable energy to power their homes. The solar leasing program will allow New Mexico residents to install solar power systems leased from Affordable Solar to start providing their required energy — based on … Read More Affordable Solar Announces Solar Leasing For New Mexico was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » California Electric Car Rebates Mapped (Interactive!) California is one heck of an electric car leader, and not just because it’s home to Le Tesla. See the stats below, as well as this, this, this, this, and this post. (Though, I have to admit, it’s not all good news.) Anyway, check out this EV Obsession post below for some info on the cool map tracking California’s EV progress and some EV fun facts, and be super thankful that the state is also making … Read More California Electric Car Rebates Mapped (Interactive!) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » High-School Student Builds 900 HP Electric Honda S2000 Here’s another super fun EV project, story reposted courtesy CleanTechnica sister site Gas2: A perfect embodiment of the "I can't buy it, I'll have to build it" spirit that fuels tuners and racer everywhere, high-school student Juan "Thinmint" Ehringeras has tackled his 900 hp (!?) electric Honda S2000 project from the ground up. Like a boss. Starting with a pair of readily-available electric motors and a salvaged Honda S2000 roadster body, Thinmint has designed every piece … Read More High-School Student Builds 900 HP Electric Honda S2000 was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Thanks for loving us.  View this email in your browser Related Sites: Some rights reserved  unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences