Tel Aviv, Nov. 25 -- Israel's Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure is promoting a national database for electric charging stations to increase competition between charging station operators - the database will be operated in real time, will be accessible to the public, will reduce "range anxiety", and will support the acceleration of the transition to electric vehicles in Israel.

"This step will increase competition and transparency, reduce prices and encourage the public to switch to electric transportation," said the Ministry.

The move is intended to remove a key barrier to expanding the use of electric vehicles: the gap in information available to drivers, which creates concern about the unavailability of charging stations ("range a...