Designed for travellers, a platform created by a young engineer shows where and how to charge the battery of your electric car. As electric car registrations rise, here is another sign of change
Electric cars, full steam ahead. A thriving market, barely touched by the crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic across Europe. In the second quarter of this year, registrations of electric cars rose to 129,344,, according toAcea (the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association). A leap in both quantity and quality that is good for traffic and for the environment. Especially in big cities.
Choosing electric
Choosing a sustainable private vehicle comes down to considerations of an economic nature (there are often purchase incentives) but also practical ones. The range and charging of the batteries, for example. Travelling long distances is often a problem. Many motorists hesitate over their choice when faced with this foreseeable eventuality. The dilemma of where and how to charge the battery of your “electric car” has recently found an answer in the website www.eviaggio.it .
Conceived by Nicola Carlon, a young 35-year-old engineer who himself owns an electric car and is a frequent traveller.
Carlon has created the free website showcasing hotels, restaurants and accommodation where you can charge your battery without too much anxiety. A preventive solution for every trip, which today lists over 1,300 destinations.
Travel with peace of mind
In practice, before setting off, the website tells you everything you need so that you won’t then be stranded or frazzled trying to find a charging point. Here you can find out in advance what is available at your destination: connector type, power output, whether the service is free, and whether charging is compatible with your car’s make. As these are trips to unfamiliar places, the platform lets you add links to booking.com and TripAdvisor, as well as an interface showing the availability of the hotel’s charging service. “Often,” explains Carlon, “booking sites don’t make this clear.” With a sustainable vision of travel, the application is proving to be extremely useful.
“The aim of the platform,” adds Carlon, “is not profit but an open and independent community. The platform is growing, it needs everyone’s help to establish itself, in the hope that one day it will no longer be needed because everyone will have a charging point.”
The idea is to help you choose the right hotel or restaurant by cross-referencing data from review platforms with the certainty of having a charging point available.
A new era for mobility?
As mentioned, the application is gaining ground at a time of crisis for petrol and diesel cars. Sales have been falling since the start of the year. Perhaps we are at the beginning of a new era in personal mobility. The fossil fuels that power conventional engines are no longer buyers’ top preference. Young people make up a large share of the market. The push towards buying an electric car is also boosted by policies to curb harmful vehicle emissions, where such measures are applied. Then there is technology, which is ever more advanced. A car with an electric motor uses clean energy (chemical) produced by batteries that are now more efficient and durable.The limited electric range of the early days, caused by storing little energy, has been overcome by new, more sophisticated equipment and by considerable investment from car manufacturers.
If a platform also offers the certainty of having a charging point at the end of a journey, it means we have taken the right road.
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