Drivers on a peripheral road in Thessaloniki couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw a young man riding an electric scooter at nearly 100 km/h as a “road user”. The video immediately hit the Internet. The footage shows a young man without a helmet or any kind of protective equipment moving along the highway … […]
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One Sunday a month, Kifisia will be closed to cars.
The municipal authorities of Kifissia have decided to ban the entry of cars into the center of the district, as well as into Nea Eritrea, on one Sunday of every month. As an alternative to transportation, residents and guests of the northern suburbs of the capital will have the opportunity to freely use electric public […]
Electric scooters will return to Greece
Thessaloniki, Barcelona, Rome and Istanbul are participating in a special “experiment” aimed at improving the mobility, safe use and parking of individual vehicles, in particular electric scooters. Research institutes, developers and operators from four cities form a collaborative mobility research front through two innovative projects, Cleanergy 4 Micromobility and RideSafeUM, supported by EIT Urban Mobility, […]
The holiday of electromobility was first celebrated in Greece
The largest European festival of electric vehicles took place in Thessaloniki on Aristotle Square on 8 and 9 May 2021, under the auspices of the Municipality of Thessaloniki in cooperation with GRC TECH-BLAUPUNKT. The purpose of the event was to familiarize the public with electric bicycles and scooters, as well as interpretation of traffic rules […]