When the electric smart cars were being provided at the Motor Show, on December 2, Livio Vido, Managing Director of the Engineering and Innovation Division of Enel said: “We have kept the promise that we made right here two years ago. ” The e-mobility Italy project had been announced during the same event in 2008, and this year the attention was focused on it once more due to the fact that the smart fortwo electric drive has been included in the corporate fleet of companies such as Autostrade, Mediaset, McDonald’s Italy, Vodafone and UGF.
The 2010 edition of the Motor Show focuses on electric mobility, with BolognaFiere hosting from December 4 to 12 the entire e-mobility sector called Electric City, powered by Enel, An exhibition of the electric cars of the main international automobile manufacturers, where visitors can test drive the exhibited cars inside pavilion 30, set up with an unprecedented eight thousand square meter indoor area for the test drive.
More and more car manufacturers are launching zero emissions cars into the market. Enel has signed important agreements with Mercedes, Piaggio, Nissan and Renault. Along this same path, it has also signed agreement during the opening of the Motor Show with Citroën. With the French manufacturer, Enel will launch an all inclusive offer for drivers of the C-Zero model, which includes the supply of RECS certified energy (an international certification system for the development of renewable sources) and access to smart charging stations already present in the areas. The latter are the so-called home stations that Enel has begun to install in Italian homes selected for the e-mobility Italy project. Beginning in September, smart EDs have started to move on the roads of the three cities involved in the initiative, which have been provided to the mayors of Milan, Rome, and Pisa and to 16 citizens selected among the project’s 100 participants.
The Motor Show 2010 is an opportunity to learn about Enel’s wide range of initiatives regarding electric cars and carbon-free mobility. A diversified commitment that can be summed up in the unique Enel Drive project, which associates vehicles with the distribution network, the smart grid technology, and everyday lives of citizens. An advanced project that has made new record during this event. On December 3, Enel signed an agreement with the Emilia Romagna region, to set up three pilot projects for the development of an innovative infrastructure for public and private charging of electric vehicles for transportation of people and goods. It’s the first project of its kind in Italy and President of Enel Piero Gnudi, who attended the signature of the agreement, said he hopes “that soon, in the Emilia-Romagna as in the rest of Italy, there will be a widespread use of electric vehicles, thus triggering a clean and quiet revolution in the mobility sector.”
