Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Zero Emission City: Parma realm of the electric car

If the Dutch city Amsterdam first threw down the gauntlet by stating that in 2015 10 thousand electric cars will be circulating and 2 thousand points of charge to users, the very Italian Parma replied with his project ZEC - Zero Emission City. The Mayor Pietro Vignali said during the conference on European policy for electric mobility "which was held yesterday at the foyer of the Teatro Regio di Parma.

This is Antonio Tajani, vice president of the European Commission, who stressed that "The EU should focus on the car of the future to defend the occupation and its leadership in this area." Vignali expected to be achieved, for the first time in Italy, an integrated mobile application for the building, calling the localization strategy of the network infrastructure and manage the supply of products to market.

During the conference in Parma was reiterated the need to standardize the charging infrastructure in Europe. The start of the project is expected to Parma in 2011, with the installation of the first 100 columns for charging electric vehicles at least as many, also electric. The project is expected to go fully operational by the end of 2012, when the total of columns should be installed in city electric vehicles between 300 and 400 and 450.

All with a total investment of € 9 million. Of course, the estimates seem somewhat optimistic, given that in 2010 throughout Italy were sold only 103 electric cars (69 in 2009). However, we hope that the "good intention" of Parma does not turn into a vacuum to lose as the initiatives of Livorno and Torino made in the 90s (with enormous expenditure of money, public) and now forgotten.

Initiative of Parma, meanwhile, has already joined the Renault is studying the opportunity to share the adoption of its models (the commercial furgonetta Kangoo Express Z. E, ZE Fluence sedan family, the urban vehicle and the compact sedan Twizy Zoe, arriving between 2011 and 2012) under certain lines of development of electric mobility such as car sharing.

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