Gipuzkoa - San Sebastian

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In the Basque region of Spain, smartCEM will pilot a hybrid bus as well as an electric car sharing scheme.

The city of San Sebastián is a compact coastal city with 185.510 inhabitants, the city lies in a bay between two hills. Bus patronage is steadily growing and the number of annual trips by bus is the biggest figure in Spain (average 144 trips per person/year), with 20% of bus users also owning a car.

Gipuzkoa – San Sebastian pilot site will use two bus routes in San Sebastian and a hybrid bus in order to contribute to electro-mobility in urban areas.

The second application to be piloted is an EV car sharing application, running in urban and interurban environments. There will be FEV (fully electric vehicle) and HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) car-sharing vehicles driven during the operation phase.

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