I’ve read of schemes in Europe where city centre supermarket parking lots that are largely unused at night are opened up for overnight parking by nearby residents. We’re going to need some creative thinking like this to widen ownership in the centre of towns.

Dear Sirs,

Yesterday I had my first contact with the Betterplace’s Fluence-ZE through a test drive. It was pretty good! I am really amazed how successfully you could combine existing technology in this fantastic system “electric car+national infrastructure”.

As a potential customer I have a point of view and suggestions to improve this national project and reach the success.

The only real problem that I see today for private regular buyers like me is the lack of mechanism that will secure available parking with charging spot near their houses. I am not talking about the installation that is included in the package, but parking lot itself.

The overwhelming majority of drivers today do not have private parking lots. Therefore there is a real need to implement a plan, in conjunction with the municipalities, that provides to the Betterplace costumers the availability of parking lots when they return home.

This will open a new chapter in the public acceptance: for most of the costumers in the most of the time they won’t need to go to the stations to change batteries saving precious time. This will be a real advantage against all kinds of fossil fuel powered cars, even the hybrids.

I wish a great success for Betterplace, for the sake of us all.

I didn’t find in the post how many times he had to change batteries during this amazing trip. Do you know?

Go Shai, you are doing great.