Project Better Place #3: Portugal considers electric car adoption
ElectronRun has already talked about the progress of Project Better Place in Israel and Denmark. Portugal is quite restless these days and apart from renewable energy sources is looking at other ways to become environmentally friendlier.
Despite the huge limitations of Project Better Place, Portugal will investigate its viability for the near future. Again we are looking at a small country with relatively small displacements and growing clean energy production methods to support the whole operation.
From January when I first wrote about Project Better Place till now, no matter how I look at it, purely electric cars do not cut it. Sacrifices are just too large and too many, and I think acceptance will be limited to hard core environmentalist but will be skipped by the average citizen. This would be a shame and I hope electric cars do not end up as the laughing stock of traditional car owners. This would indeed be a great blow to green personal transport efforts, giving rise to suspicion for every forthcoming propositions no matter how good or realistic they are.
I am just wondering, when planners think about the future infrastructure of whole countries, together with the green factor, do not they want to play it a bit safe? And haven’t they thought about plug-in hybrids yet? The whole Internet is buzzing with news and plans from a number of car manufacturers!
Now let’s see where I could go with a Project Better Place car… Mmmmmmmmmm… I found it! From Portugal I could take the ferry to Denmark or Israel because this is the only way I can get anywhere far!
