Comments on: Israel launches electric-car program

Renault-Nissan, Project Better Place, and the government of Israel announce plan to bring electric cars to the country.

[yacovm888]

On the story about electric cars it said that charging them would use fossil fuels. Wouldn't that be counter productive? With a state that uses 99.9% of the population?s hot-water-heaters that are solar powered, (dud-d? shemish) why not photovoltaic to charge the stations? I myself had a company in Israel that sold and serviced solar-hot-water-heaters and know first hand there?s still room on those roof-tops for a panel per/electric car owner. It would be easy to devise a way to run an outlet to a nearby spot by the car. The person could have an extra battery being charged during the day with an additional outlet in his or hers home. The stations themselves could use photovoltaic panels even the car itself could have at least a small portion of the roof (or sun-roof) that is photovoltaic. Something is better than nothing.

[yacovm888]

On the story about electric cars it said that charging them would use fossil fuels. Wouldn't that be counter productive? With a state that uses 99.9% of the population?s hot-water-heaters that are solar powered, (dud-d? shemish) why not photovoltaic to charge the stations? I myself had a company in Israel that sold and serviced solar-hot-water-heaters and know first hand there?s still room on those roof-tops for a panel per/electric car owner. It would be easy to devise a way to run an outlet to a nearby spot by the car. The person could have an extra battery being charged during the day with an additional outlet in his or hers home. The stations themselves could use photovoltaic panels even the car itself could have at least a small portion of the roof (or sun-roof) that is photovoltaic. Something is better than nothing.

[yacovm888]

On the story about electric cars it said that charging them would use fossil fuels. Wouldn't that be counter productive? With a state that uses 99.9% of the population?s hot-water-heaters that are solar powered, (dud-d? shemish) why not photovoltaic to charge the stations? I myself had a company in Israel that sold and serviced solar-hot-water-heaters and know first hand there?s still room on those roof-tops for a panel per/electric car owner. It would be easy to devise a way to run an outlet to a nearby spot by the car. The person could have an extra battery being charged during the day with an additional outlet in his or hers home. The stations themselves could use photovoltaic panels even the car itself could have at least a small portion of the roof (or sun-roof) that is photovoltaic. Something is better than nothing.