Destroying Turkish Made Electric Cars

Better Place RFID tag and key fobIt’s a long time since I wrote anything about Better Place. I’m still driving my electric car almost every day, is one of the few things I can do to help take care of the environment. One other thing my wife and normally do is taking the old tires to the local waste tyre recycling since up to 90% of that material can be used again.

When I worked on plans to rescue Better Place from the bankruptcy, plenty of thought was given to these cars sitting in the port at Ashdod. These were tied up in huge bureaucratic red tape issues. Seems there really never was any will to get them on the road.

I can imagine that after one and a half years sitting idle, the batteries are completely wrecked. The car bodies (sitting next to the sea for so long) are probably not great either and this is just a huge disgrace. Carasso (the importer) and Renault should be ashamed of themselves. They could have given these cars away to a thousand families who would have LOVE to make local journeys in them just as I do almost every day.

If we want a positive spin, I guess we could say this is BDS against Turkish made cars. All these cars were originally built by Renault on a production line in Turkey.

Globes English – Importer destroys hundreds of Better Place cars.

The cars were stored in Ashdod Port, where they were apparently damaged by being kept there for so long, and it is therefore not economically feasible to sell them on the market. At the same time, the leasing companies and Carasso itself are trying to sell the usable cars through various bargain campaigns.

Carasso said in response, “We intend to scrap mainly Renault Fluence electric cars damaged during their prolonged storage in Ashdod Port.”

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