What is special about the electric car from Renault?
It will be more affordable than an average petrol car – cheaper than the VW Polo. This applies to the purchase price and for the operating costs. At the beginning we need for state assistance. But this is only the bridge up to the time when electric cars are manufactured in such large numbers as gasoline vehicles. At IAA, there will be a turning point, when Renault present their electric car, which goes into production, to the audience – and we show our complete system which we have been working on for two years. These include batteries, charging stations and software for the control of the car. The test fleets will be driving in Israel in late 2010, the mass market launches 2011. Before Better Place was founded, you were board member at the software group SAP. Who provides the software of electric cars from Renault? The heart of the software is provided by Better Place, the rest from Intel and Microsoft. The dashboard will provide information about the battery, the next swap or chargi
