Electric Cars, And Chargers, Poised to Flood Israel
Shai Agassi boldly predicts one-third of Israel’s cars will run on electricity within five years. It would be an outlandish claim if the entrepreneur hadn’t lined up a sweet plan to jump-start the country’s adoption of EVs. Agassi’s Silicon Valley startup Better Place has signed a deal under which 92 corporate fleet owners will replace their conventional vehicles with electric vehicles when their leases begin expiring next year. What’s more, Better Place has forged a partnership with Dor Alon, one of Israeli’s largest gas station chains, to deploy its battery swap technology . We’ll see the first of the Renault electrics on the road in 2011, and they’ll …
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