FREE TAXI IN CAGLIARI FOR LOCALS AND TOURISTS WITH ELECTRIC CARS

In Cagliari, a few weeks running around the city of the “colored dots” silent and ecological. Four electric cars offer a free taxi service to locals and tourists. This project Movirìndi (move in Sardinian) of the company Ischìda (another Sardinian name, which means one who is awake) was founded in 2009 to make innovation sustainable local development.
The partners are Nicola Pirina, thirty-six expert in local development and project management, and Pierluigi Merlin, mechanical engineer thirty-five and tell us their story. “Some years ago we begin to study sustainable mobility, especially electricity. The find near home and totally made in Italy, with two excellent products that we can become exclusive importers and distributors for Sardinia: Birò of Estrima of Pordenone and the Zero Tazzari Imola.
This is a two-seat vehicle with totally electric traction that come from years of research and development processes and innovation. Movirìndi takes so start the project, in which we have invested all our savings and to whom currently work in eight, including four “drivers” that roam the city with free taxi service. “
Birò and Zero are 100% electric city car, ie they are not hybrids or adaptations of traditional combustion engine car. Cost respectively 8 and 24 thousand euro and “are eco-friendly, quiet, emit no exhaust gases, allowing the reduction of fuel consumption and operating costs and also indirect savings (the car tax is not paid for the first five years, ‘insurance is minimal). Charging for a 100 km costs about one euro and a half.
To charge the batteries (which last an average of 10 thousand km for the Birò and 2 thousand recharge cycles for Zero) just a simple household power outlet and if you have access to a network of 380 Volts, recharges in less than hour! They can be repaired by your mechanic and you drive from 14/16 years. “
Ischida is based on the passion of the people who work in and around the city the small electric cars are proving very popular, “as well as Movirìndi we are carrying out several projects on electric mobility, all with the aim to implement and promote a model of sustainable local development, innovative, knowledgeable and efficient, achieving a balance between the need for movement of people and reducing urban traffic congestion and air and noise pollution. If in 5 years 0.1% of the Sardinians had one of our electric cars would be a great result.
For now, if you’re in Cagliari looking for one of our colorful dots on the move to get a free upgrade to the next destination of your day and treat yourself to a tour of the sustainable city. “

Sardinia: Ischìda LTD | Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 284 – Cagliari | www.ischida.it – www.movirindi.com