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Amsterdam town council is studying the possibilities of implantation of its “HIRIKO electric vehicle

The Amsterdam town council has asked the “HIRIKO, driving mobility” consortium to carry out a study that details the possibilities of implantation of its “HIRIKO electric vehicle, which is being developed in the Alava Technological Park  in the town. The work will be ready by the end of September. This was announced by Carlos Fernandez Isoird, the technical coordinator of HIRIKO and director of DENOKINN during the “Euskal Encounter” that is taking place in the BEC-Bilbao Exhibition Centre.

According to Fernández Isoird “the concepts and ideas that HIRIKO contributes on the possibility of generating fleets of electric cars for cities, also with the possibility of an occasional use for punctual displacement beyond the cities, convinces town councils in big towns which are requesting more information. The basic idea is that such cars are rented for a determined internal journey by acceding to the cars by means of a card, a telephone password or other control systems”, added Fernández Isoird. “After that, they are left parked at their urban destination so somebody else can use them. Also, they can be useful in post office fleets, for physicians and home aid assistants, urban distribution services, etc. This is non-contaminating, non-aggressive sustainable mobility, as proposed for the new models of development pretended by the most advanced cities, with more spaces for people”.

Together with Fernández Isoird, North American engineer William Lark explained the characteristics of this new concept for urban mobility that is to be commercialised in 2012. HIRIKO directives are now presenting the HIRIKO project to over six thousand young people who participate in the “Euskal Encouter 18” technological event at the BEC, as they have already done in innovation contests in Berlin, Madrid and London.