E-Way debuts, an electric car sharing designed to connect the municipalities of Lake Garda in an ecological way. It is the first in the suburban area in Italy.
E-Way debuts, an electric car sharing designed to connect the municipalities of Lake Garda in an ecological way. It is the first in the suburban area in Italy.
car sharing is becoming an increasingly widespread and popular mobility forum, but until now it has been mainly confined to urban environment. Lake Garda, on the other hand, is the first area in Italy to boast an unprecedented extra-urban electric car sharing service. In fact, the new service involves 13 municipalities located along the shores of the lake – in the provinces of Brescia and Verona – and allows citizens to move in an ecological way between the main tourist resorts of the Garda area.
The project, which is called E-Way , was created by the public multi-utility Garda Uno in collaboration with Renault, which provides the means and thus confirms itself at the forefront of sustainable mobility in Italy.
E-Way currently provides a fleet of eight Renault Zoe and four charging stations located in the municipalities of Desenzano, Padenghe, Salò and Peschiera. A fleet of electric scooters will also be available during the year.
The service, which was presented in Desenzano, will be operational starting from August 1st and will cost 15 euros per hour (which can be divided into fifteen minutes), or 50 euros per day or 90 euros for a weekend. There are also discounts at certain times (for workers and students) such as rental at the price of only 18 euros from 7 to 14 and discounts of 20% for young people under 25.
car sharing is becoming an increasingly widespread and popular mobility forum, but until now it has been mainly confined to urban environment. Lake Garda, on the other hand, is the first area in Italy to boast an unprecedented extra-urban electric car sharing service. In fact, the new service involves 13 municipalities located along the shores of the lake – in the provinces of Brescia and Verona – and allows citizens to move in an ecological way between the main tourist resorts of the Garda area.
The project, which is called E-Way , was created by the public multi-utility Garda Uno in collaboration with Renault, which provides the means and thus confirms itself at the forefront of sustainable mobility in Italy.
E-Way currently provides a fleet of eight Renault Zoe and four charging stations located in the municipalities of Desenzano, Padenghe, Salò and Peschiera. A fleet of electric scooters will also be available during the year.
The service, which was presented in Desenzano, will be operational starting from August 1st and will cost 15 euros per hour (which can be divided into fifteen minutes), or 50 euros per day or 90 euros for a weekend. There are also discounts at certain times (for workers and students) such as rental at the price of only 18 euros from 7 to 14 and discounts of 20% for young people under 25.
The car chosen for the project is the Renault Zoe , the small zero-emission city car that is the best-selling electric vehicle in Europe with over 7,000 units registered since 2012. Furthermore, it is the model that contributes most to the spread of electric mobility in urban centers throughout Europe through numerous car sharing projects. The eight units of E-Way have an effective range of about 300 kilometers, enough to make a complete tour of Lake Garda twice.
In the future it is possible to expand the area affected by the initiative, with the involvement of additional Garda municipalities. In this regard, the president of Garda Uno, Mario Bocchio, stated that “in the coming years it will be possible to export all the experiences of the mobility sector to the territories of the provinces of Brescia, Verona, Trento and Mantua, thanks also to the launch of projects with Sisam SpA, AGS SpA and AGSM ».
«We are proud to add, today, another flag in Italy to the map of the many car sharing operating on the national territory, which have chosen to adopt Renault ZE vehicles » instead declared Francesco Fontana Giusti, Director of Communications & amp; Image Renault Italia , who added: «from August it will be possible to do the entire tour of Lake Garda on board of an electric car, without the anxiety linked to autonomy, in a comfortable and harmonious way with the surrounding landscape: zero noise, zero pollution, with the possibility of recharging during the stop “.