Very happy with the Duferco Due Energy card; but a lot more surprised by how charging works in Tuscany:
- Firenze: the charger at Via Ghibellina (the only one in the center!) seems always to be miraculously available - nobody is ever charging there. On the other hand, the only way to reach it (as far as I know) is to ride through a (temporarily) car-free zone for about 30m (Via d'Angelo). All other routes I try on my GPS to that charger also involve riding through car-free zones… I wonder what the Italian police will have sent to my home address about the issue… Perhaps it is no wonder this charger is always available...
- Siena: Rode around for some time without finding Enel parking places which were not ICE'd (although signs clearly mention that these parking places are only there for e-cars which are charging, i.e. prohibition for other cars to park there). Finally found one ICE car leaving, but another driver wanted to take that place; I honked and blocked him before he could do so (because I actually really needed to charge!) and the result was (a) twenty people watching the outcome of the discussion and (b) a verbal fight where (I think) my Italian counterpart treated me with all names useful to send me to hell, and not wanting to believe I was entitled to that parking space rather than he was. He finally left, after indeed (probably) sending me to hell (but leaving the charger to me).