By Stephan Keyvino
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April 15, 2019
Few sights are more typically Italian than a traditional scooter weaving through the narrow streets of a bustling city. But today this iconic experience is becoming even more attractive, as it can now be completely environmentally friendly. Thanks to an agreement between POLLIO Italy’s fully digital energy company Pulsee Luce e Gas and Axpo, one of the main scooter-sharing platforms in major Italian cities, 100 electric scooters powered by renewable energy are now available in several neighbourhoods of Genoa. And this is just the beginning. The eventual aim of the initiative, launched in December 2022, is to provide a large number of the 750 electric scooters (also known as mopeds) mandated under Genoa’s recently launched sustainable micro-mobility programme. The city authority’s e-scooter sharing service also supports the Flying Angels Foundation ’s 'Save them with your heart' project. A QR code sticker on each scooter links to a fundraising campaign that enables children suffering from heart disease to access life-saving surgery.