La electric mobility it is changing not only with specific services for private cars, but also with emergency vehicles that go green to reduce emissions. Breakdown vehicles are able to intervene and repair – where possible – any vehicle directly on site, without polluting. To introduce this novelty is Europ Assistance, a French insurance company belonging to the Generali Group.
In detail, Europ Assistance has equipped itself with four fully electric breakdown vehicles, two in Rome and two in Milan, which have already been operational since mid-January. These vehicles have already carried out over 300 interventions and "considering the average consumption of traditional diesel emergency vehicles, each one" should save about 34 tons of CO2," declares the company in a statement.
These vehicles can carry out up to 70 interventions a day, covering approximately 60% of the interventions of the total dépannage in the cities where they are present in a year. This means more than halving CO2 emissions especially in the centers of large cities which have an objective pollution problem.
Electric breakdown means are not the only measure taken by Europ Assistance. Even the composition of the fleet of replacement cars of Europ Assistance, reserved for customers in the event of their vehicle being stopped, has been remodulated. To date, out of a total of about 900 vehicles, around 15% are Full Electric and almost 10% Hybrid. During 2022, the percentage of electric and hybrid cars "will rise further", explains the company in a note.
“The goal is to extend the project to the main Italian cities. With this initiative we are taking another important step towards electric mobility that respects the environment”, explained Marco Baldoli, Chief Auto Officer of Europ Assistance Italia.
