The first EV importer enters the electric charging stations field: Edge – EV, owned by the Horesh family, the importer of Toyota and Lexus, officially began operations in recent weeks and installed several positions as a pilot at the Golda parking lot in Tel Aviv and Bar Ilan University. By the end of the year, the company will invest several million shekels in setting up 300 municipal charging stations.

The company has agreements for setting up slow charging stations (AC) with Chetzi Chinam, the JTLV Shopping Mall, which runs, among others, Renanim Mall, Ashdod, Savyonim Yahud, Ramot Yerushalayim and Amak Center Afula.

In addition, it has an agreement with the Mika gas station network to install rapid charging stations (DC). In the cities, the company will cooperate with Milgam, and two agreements for the construction of charging stations in Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Netanya, Ramat Gan, Hod Hasharon and Or Yehuda, as was previously revealed in Calcalist. The American company Charge Point, which did not succeed, will install positions of the German company ABL.

The activity will be managed by Ronen Yablon, who established the Toyota Select activity for the sale of used cars by Union Motors and managed its chain of agents.

Toyota and Lexus have yet to market rechargeable electric or hybrid batteries but are expected to launch such models in the coming years. “We’ll work with all the car importers,” Yablon said. “In the next few years, there will be an estimated 20,000 electric chargers and hybrids that will need to be recharged.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)