Israel's first electric car battery stop
KIRYAT EKRON, Israel (UPI) -- Israel's Better Place electric carcompany inaugurated its first battery-changing station with plans tobuild 40 more in the coming year.At the demonstration in Kiryat Ekron Wednesday, a car drove over asliding panel and a robotic arm replaced drained batteries with fullycharged ones in five minutes, Israel's Channel Ten reported.
Charging batteries takes about six hours and provides 185 kilometers(116 miles) of travel but the switch can be made on the run duringlengthy car trips, driver Oved Ladzinsky told The Jerusalem Post.
The computerized system on the dashboard of the car informs the driverwhen the car needs charging, he said.
Moshe Kaplinsky, the company's chief executive officer in Israel saidthe company has also erected 1,000 functional charging spots for carsand thousands more will be created by the end of the year, the papersaid.
"The solution is here. It is ready for national deployment. It ishere, it is working and it is available," Kaplinsky told a newsconference, adding all the environmental and ecological standards havebeen met.
In February, the company opened its first electric vehicledemonstration center in Israel and announced the signing of 92corporate fleet owners as well as a partnership with Israel gasoperators Dor Alon to build battery switch stations at its facilities.
The company plans to introduce cars for commercial launch in Israeland Denmark next year, the company Web site said.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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