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Share'ngo: electric car sharing arrives in Rome

From October 400, 0,18 electric vehicles will be available in the capital - The average rate is XNUMX euros per minute - Town Manager of Share'ngo in Rome Chicco Tagliaferri: "To expand the service, a recharging network is needed and the intervention of the 'administration.

Share'ngo: electric car sharing arrives in Rome

Share'ngo disembarks in Rome. The car sharing service will bring to the capital 400 electric cars ZD1 (invented in Tuscany, but produced in China), starting from October XNUMXst, within an operational area that will include the entire historic center and will extend from piazza Giochi Delfici to piazza Re di Roma, incorporating the eastern ring road. he will also be able to close a journey at Garbatella, up to piazzale dei Navigatori, and throughout Trastevere. At the moment, therefore, it will not be possible to close a race in many of the peripheral districts of the capital. 

“The results of these first months of testing the service have been very positive – he declared Chicco Tagliaferri, town manager of Share'ngo in Rome – with an average of 250 trips a day and over 5.000 subscribers. A goal beyond our expectations, achieved also thanks to the convenience of Share'ngo which has an average rate of 0,18 euros per minute, significantly lower than all the competing free floating car sharing services”.

The possibility, in the event of a good response from the city, is, for Tagliaferri, that of "reaching up to 800 cars, as in Milan, and shortly extending the operational area to Eur, the Sandro Pertini hospital and other poles with destinations of public interest. Everything will depend on the possibility of providing the capital with an adequate electric car recharging network".

The latter is an objective that the car sharing company is working on "with various entrepreneurial entities, including Carrefour, with which the activation of the national agreement for the creation of Share is also expected in Rome in the first months of 2017". ngo Station in the Carrefour Markets, with 30 minutes of free parking”.

In this sense, however, an intervention by the city administration will also be needed to "finally make Rome the European leader in emission-free electric mobility".

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