Electric car company Better Place shuts down after burning through $850M

As I write this, discussion is currently split between:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770316 (18 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5771413 (13 comments)

Alternate source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770284