Sustainable mobility in Tuscany

Agreement between Enel and the City of Pisa for the creation of an intelligent electric-recharging network, with 100 points scattered throughout the city. The company will construct an advanced system designed to meet the needs of motorists and make possible the development and use of electric vehicles

The dream of the electric car in Italy takes shape in Pisa, as part of the “E-mobility Italy” project, thanks to the Memorandum of Understanding signed yesterday by the Mayor of Pisa, Marco Filippeschi, and by the Director of the Engineering and Innovation Division of Enel, Livio Vido. An agreement that will enable the city of Pisa to build an intelligent power recharge network: 100 points scattered throughout the city, most of which available to all citizens in public places.

A valuable contribution to improving the quality of life in Pisa and to ensure that the Tuscan city - already known as "Capital of Research" by virtue of its tradition and of the presence of major university research centres, including one by Enel, which see it invest 3,7% of its GDP in research, the Italian record and twice the European average - can make another useful contribution to abate air pollution and noise. Based on Enel’s estimates, if at least 15% of cars circulating in the Province of Pisa were electric, more than 35 thousand tons of CO2, the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change, would be saved every year, and there would also be a strong abatement of pollutants.

Therefore, the city of Pisa has decided to promote solutions and systems for sustainable mobility and, in particular, for electric mobility. An area which offers the possibility of numerous applications at an urban level: private mobility on two and four wheels, public transport, logistics and fleet management.

Electric charge columns will be available for use in Pisa starting September 2010, after an appropriate location for Pisan motorists studied by Enel in collaboration with Pisamo and with the technical departments of the Municipality based on the urban characteristics of the city, on the needs of users, on traffic flows of citizens, on mobility rules in force, on the specificity of public transport.

"Pisa proves to be an avant-garde city, ready to experience what only a few years ago seemed impossible. This initiative, together with those undertaken in the field of sustainable energy and building, testify that Pisa has started a new era characterized by an eco-sustainable development, which will have the development of electric mobility as its basic objective”, said Mayor Filippeschi.

"Thanks to the experimental phase" said Livio Vido "Enel will construct a system capable of meeting the needs of motorists, making possible the development and use of electric vehicles and the construction of avant-garde charging infrastructures, which will be tested in the pilot project. The system, designed to enable recharging of the vehicle both at home (garage) and in a public context, with the utmost comfort and convenience for users, is built on the innovative remotely managed electricity network, which, unique in the World, has allowed Enel to install, in Italy, 32 million electronic meters".

(October 2009)