THE PROCURA PROJECT AND THE SITUATION IN ITALY WITH RESPECT TO ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLES

PROCURA is a General Action project of the Intelligent Energy for Europe programme of the Directorate General Transport and Energy. The project started the beginning of February 2006 and will last three years. PROCURA aims at contributing to the EU Objective of 20% substitution of oil-based motor fuels by 2020, by overcoming market barriers for large-scale procurement of Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFVs) ETA Florence-Renewable Energies is currently performing many activities in order to manage all the deliverables assigned such as interview potential end-users, apply the developed PROCURA tools and models, perform fleet scans among public and private fleet owners, propose and apply procurement models to fleet owners and groups of private car owners, create private-public partnerships on Flexi-fuel Vehicles introduction.