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Is the YoYo battery dead? Eni will replace you, thanks to an agreement between the XEV, a Turin company (with Chinese capital) and the company of the six-legged dog.
The YoYo battery replaced in the distributors
YOYO is a launched electric machine in May 2021 and that you already drive to 16 years with driving license B1. It has been designed to be sold to individuals, but above all to be used in city car-sharing, given its size and low operating costs. The agreement with Eni provides for an innovative battery swapping service“, Battery Xchange, which provides for the replacement of discharged batteries with charged batteries. All at a select number of Eni service stations. In this way it will be possible to avoid long waits to recharge the battery. From 2022, then, the XEV YOYO city cars will join of the Enjoy fleet, Eni’s car sharing, which until now had mainly petrol-powered Fiat 500s in its fleet. The YoYo has a 9.2 kWh battery pack. The maximum speed is 70 km/h, with a 10 Cv of maximum power.
The machines of the XEV enter the Enjoy car sharing
The YOYOs and the “battery swapping” service will be presented by XEV on the occasion of thel Munich Auto Show (7-12 September). Visitors who sign up for the test drive will be able to experience the replacement system at the Innsbrucker Ring Eni service station. The distributor will be temporarily set up for demonstration of the service during the show. Luo Tik, CEO of XEV (here the site), explains: “We believe this innovative business model will remove the difficulties and limitations our consumers face in charging electric cars.“. He adds Giovanni Maffei, by Eni: “With XEV we are the first in Europe to provide the replacement service of the battery at our service stations. And we will be the first to make them available to the users of our Enjoy car sharing service, to broaden the range of sustainable services and products as much as possible.“.
IN OUR OPINION. After having looked at the electric for a long time with a certain diffidence, Eni seems to have turned the page with determination. Agreement first with Ionity for the HPC stations in the service areas, then the qualitative leap with the purchase of the second Italian charging network after Enel X, Be Charge. Other big oil companies, such as Total e Shell, they had moved before, but now the six-legged dog seems to be searching for lost time. Good.
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