Enel SpA (ENEL.MI) Tuesday said electricity will be the transportation fuel of the future in cities, after signed a deal with Rome's municipality that will give Italy's capital the country's biggest vehicle-charging infrastructure.
Enel SpA (ENEL.MI) Tuesday said electricity will be the transportation
fuel of the future in cities, after signed a deal with
Rome
's
municipality that will give
Italy
's
capital the country's biggest vehicle-charging infrastructure.
"There an unstoppable evolution for electricity to be the fuel for
environmentally-sustainable cities," said the utility's chief executive,
Fulvio Conti, at a
Rome
press
conference held with Mayor Gianni Alemanno.
Enel signed Tuesday a memorandum of understanding with
Rome
's
municipality and peer Acea SpA (ACE.MI) to build 200 new outdoor electricity
charging stations in the capital. The sites will be determined by the end of
the year.
This will bring Rome to more than 300 outdoor charging stations, which is the
largest infrastructure for any city in Italy and one of the biggest in Europe,
said Mayor Alemanno at the press conference.
Enel wants to be a "leader" in the sector, said Conti, adding that
Enel's budget for the electric vehicles sector is "modest" when
compared with its capital expenditure of about EUR27 billion for 2012-2016, but
notes that it represents about 80% of total industry investments in
Italy
.
Conti also acknowledged that "significant growth" will depend on the
speed at which automakers promote electric vehicles and greater use of the
technology to lower costs.
Διαβάστε ακόμα
Τρι, 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 19:58
Τρι, 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 19:54
Τετ, 18 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 18:32
Τετ, 18 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 18:27
Τρι, 17 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 20:01