Renault shrugs off electric car setback

Better Place represented not much more than 1 percent of the Nissan-Renault alliance's total electric vehicle volumes. (Fotograf Carsten Andersen)

May 28, 2013 05:00 AM

PARIS (Reuters) -- Renault said the collapse of a joint venture aimed at making electric cars more appealing would not hold back its plans for battery-powered vehicles.

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