Renault and Nissan are joining forces to develop electric cars that Project Better Place will sell all through Israel under a government-led campaign to promote alternative fuels.
We’ve been following the plan by Project Better Place to bring EVs to the masses by creating a network of charging stations and battery exchange depots. The concept, according to founder Shai Agassi, is to sell EVs like cell phones, where a monthly fee gets you access to batteries and the charging infrastructure.
The Isreali government quickly lined up in support of the project, and now Renault and Nissan have signed a deal to mass-produce electric vehicles they’ll start selling in Israel in 2011.
More info and video…
The cars will use lithium-ion batteries and offer a range of 60 miles
in the city and 100 miles on the highway. They’ll offer performance similar to a 1.6
Renault boss Carols Ghosn told Reuters
that Israel is perfect for EVs considering 90 percent of Israelis drive
less than 45 miles a day. He wants to sell as many as 20,000 EVs a
year in Israel.
More from Jerusalem Post, Bloomberg, and the Project Better Place press release. Photo by Getty Images via New York Daily News.
This video from Project Better Place shows how the charging infrastructure would work.
Here’s some video of the press conference from Auto Channel.
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