Hiriko

The swedisch town of Malmö will test the first HIRIKO vehicles

Next year, the town of Malmö, in Sweden, will be the testing field of the first HIRIKO Electric vehicles. Also, thanks to an agreement signed between the Scandinavian municipality and the Basque promoters of the vehicle, the town will carry out a study for the implementation of the new system of electric mobility impulsed by a consortium of Basque companies together with the MIT. Berlin, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Barcelona and Quito are now working out the last details for their incorporation in this project.

The municipality of Malmö has chosen the basis of the HIRIKO CityCar concept, with the objective of initiating a pilot program in order to study the implementation of a new system of mobility to reinforce the current sustainable mobility strategies. Malmö is considered to be one of the most innovating towns in Sweden and it clearly leads the way in terms of environmental sustainability policies and the struggle against climate change.

The pilot project, agreed upon last week, will test new technological solutions such as those contributed by the HIRIKO vehicle and will carry out planning on the necessary infrastructures and business models for a new system of mobility that incorporates shared-use electronic vehicles.
The people responsible for HIRIKO will be collaborating closely with Malmö for the integration of this new electric mobility solution in the public transport system within the framework of the existing public strategies.

Agreement
The study is to evaluate final-user demand, the necessary infrastructure for its implication, and it will calculate the impact on the town of the implementation of this new service of shared mobility and will propose a feasible business model for its financing.

In parallel to the elaboration of the feasibility study, the project will test the first HIRIKO vehicles on the field. The objective of this part of the study is to test the response of the electric vehicle in each environment as well as its interaction with the final user.

Malmö, with nearly 1,000,000 inhabitants, is the capital of the Scania region, and is considered by Grist Magazine as “one of the 15 greenest towns In the world”. It opted for election as European Green Capital in 2012. According to its local authorities, “Malmö is incorporated to this project because it aspires to international leadership in research and development of sustainable forms of urban mobility by promoting International cooperation in the exchange of know how in terms of climate change and energy safety”.