Cepsa, Cicar join forces to promote electric mobility in Spain

Under the agreement, recharging services at Cepsa’s ultra-fast public network and at CICAR’s bases will be included for rental customers.

Cepsa and the rental car company CICAR have signed an alliance to promote electric mobility in the Canary Islands through the development of a joint business model aimed at promoting electric rental vehicles.

The initiative includes a recharging service for customers renting an electric vehicle across the ultra-fast public network that Cepsa is going to set up in the Canary Islands, as well as the CICAR bases. Likewise, Cepsa will offer CICAR a comprehensive range of services to set up these bases, from installation, start-up and operation to maintenance.

"We’re going to develop the most important ultra-fast charging network in Spain so that we can spearhead sustainable mobility,” Pierre-Yves Sachet, Cepsa's Director of Mobility & New Commerce.

Users will have access to the recharging service through different tools, including a key-chain or radio frequency identification card (RFID), the Cepsa mobile application, or through the charger's touch screen.

Over the next 12 months, the company will install 100 of these ultra-fast chargers in more than half of its establishments across the Islands, with plans to equip the entire network by 2024.