Enel has signed an agreement with McDonald's Italy to install, by the end of 2021, two hundred charging points for electric cars in one hundred car parks of the fast food chain scattered throughout the country.
Each station will have two types of columns, which will allow the simultaneous refueling of two vehicles with different power outputs: up to 22 kW in AC for the JuicePoles and at least 50 kW in DC for the JuicePumps. With the latter, about 30 minutes on average will be enough to make a full charge.
“Full capacity charging points will lead to a net saving of over 1.800 tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere, given that it corresponds to the CO2 absorbed by more than 100.000 trees in one year”, reads the note from Enel X.
The first charging stations installed are at the McDonald's restaurants in Desio, Eboli, Loreto, San Benedetto del Tronto, Ancona and Osimo, the last three of which are already active and visible on the apps. Soon the columns will also arrive in Piombino, Barberino di Mugello, Alessandria, Quartu Sant'Elena and Florence.
"The agreement with McDonald's allows people to approach the world of electric mobility in an easy and conscious way, the only real option for moving around in full respect of the environment - he declared Federico Caleno, head of e-mobility Italy of Enel X – The new charging points are added to the more than 10.500 that we have already installed throughout the country and are part of a larger project that sees us engaged in the creation of a European infrastructure network". Tommaso Valle, Corporate Relations and Sustainability Director of McDonald's Italia also underlines how the agreement will "strengthen McDonald's commitment to sustainability and you confirm "our daily commitment to a lower environmental impact, promoting a culture of sustainability", recalling that McDonald's is the largest restaurant chain in the world.
