Renault Fluence Renault Z.E. program of electric vehicles. At the same show, the Israeli company Better Place announced the Renault Fluence Z.E. would be the first electric car with a switchable battery available on the network of battery swap charging stations that it is developing in Israel. The Fluence Z.E is outfitted with a 22 kWh lithium-ion battery which allows a total all-electric range of , with speeds up to . Sales of the Fluence Z.E. are scheduled for 2011 in Israel, Denmark and the rest of Europe, and for 2012 in the rest of the world such as Asia. At the
All models are wrong Similarly, in 1947, John von Neumann said that "truth … is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations". All models are wrong "All models are wrong" is a common aphorism in statistics. It is usually considered to be applicable to not only statistical models, but to scientific models generally. The aphorism is generally attributed to the statistician George Box, although the underlying concept predates Box's writings. The first record of Box saying "all models are wrong" is in a 1976 paper published in the "Journal of the American Statistical Association". The paragraph containing the aphorism is below. Box repeated