Nissan, Renault and Better Place team for electric cars, charging points in Israel

January 22nd, 2008 | Category: Transporation

While there are many rational and irrational reasons for the delays we’ve seen in production of a mass-market and massively adopted electric car, most of the major issues seem to be addressed by that new initiative going down in Israel. One of the primary problems with electric cars is refilling, and that’s going to be nicely addressed by entrepreneur Shai Agassi’s Project Better Place, which will build a charging network of 500,000 plug-in points across the country. Other issues were a bit more easily addressed: since

Israel is a small country, the limited range of electric cars isn’t as much of an issue, and the government subsisdies should compose prices competitive — with the eventual cost of ownership significantly less than gas cars to sweeten the deal even further. Nissan and Renault plan to built the cars, naturally, and hope to port the concepts into other vehicles in other countries in the approach future. The plan is to launch the first cars in Israel around 2011.