Renault Fluence Z.E. were deployed in Israel and around 400 units sold in Denmark through May 2013, when Better Place filed for bankruptcy. Since 2011 a total of 3,935 units have been sold worldwide through October 2014. The Fluence Z.E., called SM3 ZE in South Korea, is the most numerous electric car of the South Korean car parc, with 1,604 SM3 ZE sold till December 2015. Approximately 6,000 Renault Fluence Z.E. have been sold between 2011 and 2015. The lithium-ion battery has a capacity of 22 kWh and weighs . The Fluence Z.E. is longer than the internal combustion model to accommodate the
Environmental aspects of the electric car 60% of Americans, up from 45% in 2009, live in regions where an all-electric car produce fewer equivalent emissions per mile than the most efficient hybrid. The UCS study found two reasons for the improvement. First, electric utilities have adopted cleaner sources of electricity to their mix between the two analysis. Second, electric vehicles have become more efficient, as the average 2013 all-electric vehicle used , representing a 5% improvement over 2011 models. Also, some new models are cleaner than the average, such as the BMW i3, which is rated at 0.27 kWh by the EPA. In states with a