A new company called Project Better Place is collaborating with Renault to make electric cars more practical. The main problem with these environmental-friendly vehicles is that of recharging, because this takes hours, and their range is considerably shorter than gasoline powered cars.

The new project raised $200 million and is aimed at installing recharging infrastructure in Israel and Denmark, so that the cars will be recharged alike cell phones. The outlets are placed at parking lots throughout the country, in a number of 500,000 in Israel only, and a similar number is slated for Denmark. That is one outlet for every six parking lots.

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Renalult will lunch their stunning Megane Coupe Concept at Geneva Motor Show this summer.

The car’s headlamps will have two rows of main lights and dipped beam lights wich fills the sidelight and daytime running light functions.

The panelled doors feature a separate glazed area and, as they open, the two parts deploy gracefully and elegantly in an independent movement reminiscent of dragonfly wings

When you’ll be inside watching the instrumenation you’ll realise that the Coupe looks more like a plane than like a car.The speedometer displays the speed in analogue form(on the periphery) and also in digital form(in the center).Both feature black metallic backgrounds with white graphics and red backlighting.

All front and rear passengers will benefit from a poftable Samsung P2 audio/video player with touchscreen.An interesting thing is that the new Megane can be locked and unlocked using a Samsung F700 mobile phone.

Megane Coupe Concept features a 2-litre,four cylinder turbocharged engine.The six-speed manual gearbox will deliver the power to the front wheels,reaching 100km/h in 7.2 seconds.

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