“Go faster,” my guide says as I turn into the straight on a test track near Tel Aviv. I put my foot down and the Renault Laguna accelerates effortlessly. The strangest feature of an all-electric car is not the silence, but the absence of gears shifting, because there are no gears.
The smooth ride would be the easiest electric feature to get used to, I reflect as I park. The hardest would be the worry that the battery might lose much of its charge mid-journey, the way a mobile phone does.
Better Place, the Palo Alto-founded company that owns the test track, claims to have solved the battery problem. Later this year, it will launch its electric cars in Denmark and Israel before attempting to convert the rest of the world.
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