(ANSA) - ROME - About 180 fast electric charging ''multi-standard'' stations are expected to be installed along Italian highways by 2019, and 20 in Austria. This is the objective of the project EVA + (Electric Vehicles Arteries) co-financed by the EU, focusing on electric mobility in Italy and Austria presented in Brussels in recent days. The financing agreement, for a maximum value of 4.2 million euro, was signed with the INEA, the EU agency in charge of implementing financial and administrative management of projects co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility. According to the EU agency, EVA + fits in the Mobility Strategy for the Mediterranean-Baltic corridor. The initiative is therefore one of the steps toward the realization of a network of charging stations that will allow you to move from southern to northern Europe driving electric vehicles. Out of the planned 200 stations, 180 will be installed in Italy by Enel, and another 20 in Austria by Smatrics, subsidiary of the Austrian company Verbund. Those planned for Italy will be Fast Recharge Plus, a technology developed by Enel, which allows simultaneous charging of two vehicles in 20 minutes. As early as next week, preparatory studies will begin in order to identify the location of these charging stations, which will be installed at about 50-60 kilometers away from each other. According to the roadmap, the first thirty stations should be installed as early as autumn 2017. Among the partners of the project, in addition to Enel and Verbund, even the car manufacturers Renault, BMW, Nissan and Volkswagen. On the occasion of the inaugural conference of EVA + in Brussels, the initiative's website http://www.evaplus.eu/ was also launched. The project completion is scheduled for late 2019.

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