The Italian vitality firm Eni has launched the electric carsharing service Enjoy in extra Italian cities after Turin. The zero-emission fleet depends on the small automotive Yoyo designed by XEV in Italy.
Eni, previously often called an oil firm and petrol station operator, first began working with XEV on the latter’s headquarters in Turin. Towards the top of final 12 months, the businesses made a deal which referred to as for the Yoyo EV to turn into a part of the Enjoy fleet, Eni’s car-sharing service.
Following the launch in Turin in May this 12 months, Eni has now electrified the fleets in different Italien cities, specifically Bologna, Florence and Milan. Milan may have the most important fleet of Yoyo electric vehicles with 200 set to enter service earlier than the 12 months’s finish, alongside 900 typical vehicles. In Bologna and Florence, Enjoy consists of 50 free-floating vehicles in every fleet. In Florence, the brand new EVs will make for a 3rd of the fleet (whole 150) and for a smaller share in Bologna (fleet whole 205).
The fleet is free floating because the XEV small automotive allows battery swaps which Eni has taken on. In Milan for instance, 9 Eni service stations have been arrange and will probably be operational for this objective in the upcoming weeks, so the corporate.
Eni additional describes the XEV Yoyo as a completely electric metropolis automotive with a high pace of 80 km/h and a variety of as much as 150 km. There can also be a sunroof, and the automotive being small and agile, Eni considers it the best automotive for metropolis centres.
Indeed, the Italian start-up unveiled its 3D-printed mini EV on the IAA Mobility final 12 months prepared for sequence manufacturing. For Enjoy car-sharing companies, the already quirky autos additionally come in eye-catching lime inexperienced color.
In phrases of spec, the two-seater that’s 2.53 metres quick and weighs solely 450 kilograms (with out battery). A everlasting synchronous motor on the rear axle, which gives 7.5 steady and 15 kW peak energy drives the Yoyo. This is mixed with a replaceable LFP battery with 10.4 kWh and 77 volts.
As for Enjoy, customers can lease electric autos through the carsharing’s app accessible for Android, iOS and Huawei. XEV YOYO metropolis vehicles comes on the identical price as different vehicles in the fleet and price €0.29/min to lease with a hard and fast payment of €1.00 for unlocking the car initially of the rental.
The Enjoy service is on the market in Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and Rome; Eni may even introduce electric vehicles in Rome in the approaching months so that every one companies areas will embrace EVs.
eni.com (Milan), eni.com (Bologna), eni.com (Florence)