October 8, 2019 – In addition to saving financially, Split Parking is raising environmental awareness in the city of Split.
Splitski Dnevnik writes that as part of the Electric Mobility Project, the Split Parking utility company has installed new charging stations for electric vehicles at five locations in Split, and has purchased four Renault Kangoo electric vehicles and two OPAI electric scooters. The new vehicles, the company said, will bring significant financial savings and, more importantly, will use two to five thousand liters of fossil fuel less per vehicle annually, which will reduce emissions and contribute to maintaining the city’s air quality.
It is estimated that electric vehicles can travel about 250 kilometers with a single charge, and Split Parking officials say it is estimated that one mobile team consumes the value of an electric vehicle in five years. The EU’s mobility market is growing at rates of over 100 percent a year, and this is part of the path that Split parking as a company has already taken, as they want to catch up to the rest of Europe when it comes to urban mobility, which also includes electric mobility.
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“Given the nature of the business, our mobile teams travel hundreds of kilometers every day, so electric vehicles were a logical step. In our work, we want to reduce the negative impact of transportation on people, health, and the environment, which is what we are doing. That is why, in cooperation with the City of Split, we have recently launched a public electric bicycle system, which is showing good results for the time being and will be expanded soon. We continue to work on projects that will allow our citizens easier, faster, and healthier transportation from one place to another,” said Marko Bartulić, director of Split Parking.
Charging stations for electric vehicles are set up at the following locations: Ruđer Bošković garage, Simić garage, Smiljanić garage, Sukoišan garage, and the Pauk service. In the garages of Ruđer Bošković and Sukoišan, Type B charging stations were installed, with a capacity of 2 × 22 kW, on which two electric vehicles can be charged at the same time, and in addition to the users of the garages above, they are accessible to all drivers. The other three locations have one A (1 × 22 kW) charging station installed and are currently available to users of these garages. In addition to the five newly installed charging stations of Split Parking, there are presently only two public charging stations for electric vehicles in the city of Split. The plan is also to install additional charging stations so that all parking lots and garages under the management of Split parking will be equipped with this service, the company said.
The charging stations are fully connected to the largest international eRoaming platform HUBJECT, which brings together over one hundred charging companies and enables the active access and promotion of charging stations to more than three hundred thousand users of electric vehicles from the European Union. There is full integration with the central regional portal Puni.hr to advertise locations, search, book, and use electric vehicle charging stations.
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