Seriously off oil: Better Place’s first electric vehicle demonstration center in Israel

Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by Eco Autos in Eco News

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Middle East, Better Place

Better Place has been signing deals to install its battery swapping and electric vehicle recharging station network around the world, for example, in Denmark, Tokyo and Canada. Not everyone is a fan of Better Place’s methods, but now people in the company’s home turf of Israel can get a closer look at what the deal is with the opening of the company’s first electric vehicle (EV) demonstration center in Israel. To make the point totally clear that plug-in vehicles are a way to get off oil, the center is built inside a refurbished oil tank (pictured above). The center includes a 1.5 kilometer (one mile) test driving track for visitors to drive an EV on. The center opens February 14th.

As part of the center’s opening, Better Place announced that it has so far signed up 92 corporate fleet owners and a new partnership with Dor Alon, one of Israel’s leading gas station operators, to install battery switch stations. There was a number included in the Better Place release that we hadn’t seen before: the company’s new partners “have agreed to convert a portion of over 45,000 internal combustion engine cars to electric vehicles from Renault when commercially available in 2011.” 45,000 conversions? Hmmm.

[Source: Better Place]

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