Italy To Receive Electric Car Network Via Enel & Daimler Group

• The Daimler Group, in partnership with Enel, Italy’s largest electricity company have announced that they will work together to bring an Electric Car Network to three cities in Italy; Rome, Piza, and Milan.
• On the automotive side, Daimler will be supplying the three cities with over 100 electric Smart Fourtwos to begin the effort they are calling e-mobility.
• On the back end, infrastructure-related side, Enel will be working to develop 400 charging locations throughout the three cities by 2010.  They’ll also be responsible for the software that informs drivers of near-by charging locations.
• Another great aspect of Enel’s side is that the electricity to power the network will be certified by the Renewable Energy Certificate System (RECS), which is “an international system involving 25 European countries that was established to finance the development of renewable energy resources, such as water, the sun, wind and geothermal resources.”
• Sounds all and great, however, what happens to those “talks” that Daimler was having last summer with Project Better Place?  I can’t imagine ol’ Shai Agassi’s very happy about this.  Although, Italy could have been out of the question to begin with, considering a large energy supplier is already working on what Better Place would provide to the country in the first place.

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