From smart cities to boating, mobility innovation passes through start-ups

From the start-up that develops the remote connection technology of a vehicle to the one that brings electric propulsion to the nautical world. Presenting the success stories of the start-ups committed to sustainable mobility is the first edition of ‘Wave – Mobility in the sustainable city’ which kicked off today in Rome and scheduled for tomorrow at the Lanterna di Fuksas. Among the protagonists of today the start-up Reefilla engaged in the development of an innovative charging system for electric vehicles. “When it comes to electric mobility – explains Marco Bevilacqua, CEO & Co-founder – the biggest challenge is recharging. Strengthened by this challenge, we are building a different opportunity which means forgetting this problem”. In practice, “we are developing a service that brings recharging to the car where it is needed and when it is needed without even the user having to worry about requesting it, through a hardware and software ecosystem made up of mobile recharging devices that can be a complement to traditional infrastructures “. Then there is 2hire, a Roman start-up that has brought remote vehicle connection technology to many countries. 2hire, explains Filippo Agostino, ceo & co-founder 2hire, “is a start-up that develops a technology to connect all vehicles and control them remotely. Our target is all the mobility operators who build services around the vehicles starting from who it shares up to the rental “. “We started with an accelerator in Rome and now we are in more than 45 cities in 16 countries in Europe and South America”. Finally, Futur-e Foiling, still in the crowdfunding phase, which brings electric propulsion to the nautical world. “Our challenge – explains Alessandro Resta, CEO of Futur-e Foiling – is to make the nautical sector also electric. Our path is still growing because we are now in crowdfunding but we already have good results as investors. In just 15 days we have reached an amount of 300 thousand euros and by the end of the campaign we will try to reach over 600 thousand euros “. In this project, “our start-up really believes in it and started from the idea of ​​finding a concrete solution to be able to apply electricity to the nautical sector. We have designed this 6-meter boat totally full electric, thanks to a developed technology that it moves wings that manage to make navigation almost like a car. It is an innovative system and we hope to bring our prototype into the water in June next year “concludes Resta.