Eight minutes to fully recharge an electric bus. The important news on the front of electric mobility and public transport comes from Milan and was announced by the mayor Giuseppe Sala himself, through a post on his social channels. Sala, who just recently confessed to having joined the group of European Greens and to betting everything on the green turnaround in view of his re-nomination as mayor of the Lombard capital, wrote that in Viale Zara "there have been installed the first fast charging stations for ATM electric buses. In eight minutes the bus receives enough charge to travel 200 kilometres, more or less the distance covered in the course of a day. By the end of the year we will add another 14 stations like these in the city and over time you will find more and more around Milan”.
"Eight minutes to load and zero emissions: sustainable Milan in practice", concluded Beppe Sala. The operation of the innovative infrastructure seems very agile: it is sufficient for a bus to stop next to the recharging system to receive the charge with a wi-fi system, which will automatically activate a device that will supply the energy directly from the roof of the vehicle . “By the end of 2021 – specified the mayor of Milan – we will install 14 charging devices like this (six in Viale Zara, four in piazza IV Novembre, four in piazza Bottini in Lambrate). By 2030, the entire fleet of buses in Milan (1.200 in all) will be electric, with a reduction in emissions of 75 tonnes of CO2 per year and diesel consumption of 30 million liters per year”.
“For us – concluded Sala in his post on Facebook – sustainability is not a flag to be flaunted, is a choice of field that manifests itself every day in small and large political and administrative choices”.
