Random Thought

Project Better Place is a name for an innovative company focused on building massive scale Electric Recharge Grids as infrastructure supporting the deployment of electric vehicles (including plug-in hybrids) in countries around the world. And Tel Aviv is one first to embrace Project Better Place vision.

Renault-Nissan the first automaker, to announce partnerships with Project Better Place to begin a mass deployment of electric cars making it possible for consumers to choose an electric vehicle that is much less expensive to operate, does not emit pollution or greenhouse gases and provides a better driving experience from their current automobiles.

Their promotional website praised the State of Israel for having a foresight in implementing an appropriate tax policy, and setting out a vision by which it can become the first industrialized nation to end the stranglehold of oil on its economy and environment. Renault-Nissan, likewise, has shown great vision and leadership , when agreeing to become the first major automaker to produce electric vehicles on a mass-scale to integrate with our infrastructure .

Project Better Place try to adopt the mobile phone business model where the motorist pays the equivalent of their current annual petrol bill for a mileage plan, they could be given the car to use, and it would become theirs after four years. Other mobile plans could operate - all you can eat unlimited mileage, pay as you go, and so on. The plan is to have the first of the cars on the road in 2009, 100,000 in 2010 and Israel off oil within ten years.

The motorist can recharge their electric cars at around 500,000 battery exchange stations and roadside charge points which which allow the cars to be charged whenever they\'re parked.

This is really a radical and brave undertaking I surely hope they succeed, so many other big cities would follow for mass adoption of ev and hybrid. The future of electric world is getting near.