We were at Binyanei Hauma today, when we saw the strangest looking row of metal posts in the ground.

At first we thought they were to keep the cars from parking on the sidewalk (that makes sense in Israel), but at second glance we saw what looked like electrical sockets on them.



At closer inspection we saw that the poles were put there by "Better Places", Shai Agassi's electric car company.



These are recharging posts for electric cars (and there was no obvious pay system connected to it that we could see).

Now, as it happened, there were no electric cars parked in front of them, but the infrastructure is there, in case some did.

Interesting.