According to Energie Ouest Suisse (EOS), the two companies will study ways of implementing and maintaining a battery-charging network throughout Switzerland. The memorandum of understanding also intends to define the terms and conditions for the supply by the Alliance of electric vehicles to EOS for use in its fleet.
EOS and the Renault-Nissan Alliance will also create and support educational activities to promote the use of electric vehicles, said the company.
Hans Schweickardt, CEO of EOS, said: “For EOS, the introduction of electric vehicles brings a forward-looking response to Switzerland’s energy and climate challenge. Replacing 15% of Switzerland’s cars by 2020 with electric vehicles would reduce CO2 emissions in the transportation sector by 1.1 million tons per year, or a reduction of around 7%.”
The EOS Group is the holding company combining power with shareholders as the main power of Western Switzerland. It is the result of the mutation, in 2002, the energy company west-suisse (EOS), founded in 1919. With its three business units, energy, commerce and transport & trading, the EOS Group focuses on three activities such as hydropower generation, transport high and high voltage and marketing of electricity in Switzerland and abroad for its own account and on behalf of its shareholders.
