Renault Opens Up Their New EV Website

A Renault EV Prototype


Open for business is Renault's new website touting four new electric vehicles that will arrive in 898 days. That is an awful long time and is the first quarter of 2012 to be more precise. Will they be too late to the party?

Apparently, one of the reasons this will take so long is the installation of the battery swapping stations that Better Place is trying to commercialize. Will this approach work? It seems like a great idea on the surface of it, but how practical will this be? What if there are 10 cars that need their battery swapped and only five ready in the station? Many questions remain for Renault, but they have apparently given themselves a long time to answer them.

Renault's new website can be found here.