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Granelli: “It is important to enhance shared mobility. And in the future only electric fleets."

Milan, June 6 2021 – Go ahead with the collection of proposals from new car sharing operators in a 'station based' system. The Council has approved the guidelines of the new public notice which will be published in the coming weeks and which, in line with the previous one, will allow the collection of expressions of interest for the implementation of the station based (fixed bay) sharing service in Milan and in the metropolitan city.

The 'station based' system is based on the presence of stations where the rental is started and concluded thanks to the positioning of the cars in predefined stalls. Therefore, the tender of the Municipality envisages making available to interested operators special stalls on public land, which will be assigned under a onerous concession following a public procedure.
The tender will also provide that the vehicles of the 'station-based' fleets are electric plug-ins or extended ranges, hybrids, methane fueled (also bimodal), LPG (also bimodal), petrol, respecting the highest performing pollution standard at the time of entry into service. 
The fleet of vehicles must be periodically renewed, so as to always be in line with the Community regulations on the emission of pollutants and CO2, and must have the characteristics required for circulation without exceptions in Area B and Area C.

The car sharing service must be ensured continuously for every day of the year, 24 hours a day with a minimum fleet of 24 vehicles, with 100 stalls available distributed over 153 locations. The operator must guarantee a suitable assistance service through an operational call center for the entire duration of the service.

“The strengthening of the car sharing system - highlights the councilor for Mobility Marco Granelli - is part of the wide range of shared vehicles available in the city and is consistent with the objectives that this Administration has set in the Urban Plan for Sustainable Mobility and confirmed through measures such as Area B. Measures which have the aim of reducing polluting emissions, reducing the circulation of private vehicles and encouraging public transport or the use of sharing. And by the end of this tender, i.e. starting from 2024, another ambitious step forward is expected: the introduction of exclusively electric fleets for an increasingly green Milan".