Better Place with the help of the Renault-Nissan alliance has the development of the swappable battery solution they would like to offer the world.
The gist is that may an eye brow was raised when Shai Agassi presented the world with its original Better Place Project, which was to offer electric cars with an infrastructure of recharging stations and automatized battery swapped stations. The organization is making headway with real life tests and are starting to answer some of the more difficult questions the EV community has had.
Testing The Automated Battery Swap Operations. After presenting its automated battery swap station of the future, where an electric vehicle, EV would drive through while a robot would replace the 400lbs depleted battery pack with a fresh new one, the group has been testing its operation. According to GreenTechMedia, Better Place has successfully finished a 1000 cycle battery swap lab test.
Questions Remain, Better Places Answers Some. The role of journalists are to get information and getting information goes through asking questions. And questions there are around Better Place‘s entire strategy. To be fair, it would be difficult to present a complete infrastructure but Better Place is slowly perfecting the ideal.
Renault & Nissan In The Meantime. If Better Place has the vision, Renault and Nissan are building the actual cars and have achieved a milestone. Their electric vehicles, EV will be rechargeable in three different ways when they first go on sale in Europe from 2011, according to AutoCar. Drivers should be able to plug in anywhere rechargeable stations can be found, in either quick or slow mode or swap their depleted battery packs.
All in all, Better Place with its Renault-Nissan Alliance partnership is continuing to further the advance of the electric drive as it answers the technical and economic questions around the technology.