BAEPS has 40 members – 35 natural persons and 6 companies – “BMW Bulgaria”, “ElDrive”, “KIA Motors Bulgaria”, “Omnicar Auto”, “Porsche Bulgaria” and “Chariot Motors”.
“BMW Bulgaria”
BMW Bulgaria is a wholesale and retail trader of BMW motorcycles, BMW and MINI automobiles. The company supports and enlarges its dealer’s network. Its activities include BMW and MINI automobiles maintenance. BMW Bulgaria organizes trainings for its dealers and for other technical activities related to the automobiles traded.
ElDrive
Eldrive is a regional integrated platform comprising all elements of electric mobility – building and managing of charging stations infrastructure and flexible EV’s short and longterm rental plans. Since the beginning of the project in June 2016 Eldrive has build 10 stations in Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv and Burgas and rents 20 electric mobiles. The company is planning 500 charging points in Bulgaria and the region until the end of 2017 and the number of passenger and heavy rental automobiles to reach 200.
Energoconsult Electromobility
Energoconsult Electromobilty develops infrastructure and builds charging stations for electric cars. The company activities include consulting, preparing of project documentation, legalization, delivery, installation and maintenance of the charging equipment. Energoconsult Electromobility provides charging equipment for the home, office, commercial areas, hotels, investors, etc.
ITR Services
The company specializes in construction, maintenance and utilization of computing centres, data storage and processing centres and related services, maintenance of electronic communication networks and providing Internet access, voice services, web services, creating and servicing information networks; design, creation, maintenance and administration of information systems; preparation and design of websites and applications. ITR Services supports the developement and implementation of innovative systems and technologies for rational and efficient resource management and consumption.
KIA Motors Bulgaria
KIA Motors Bulgaria trades the full complex of vehicles and replacements produced by KIA Motors Corporation. The company offers warranty and after warranty service for all KIA automobiles. Its ambition is to become an ecomobiles market leader until 2020 when its range of green vehicles will reach 11 new models of HEVs, PHEVs, BEVs and FCEVs. In 2015 KIA launched its first 100% electric zero emissions automobile KIA Soul EV.
Omnicar Auto
Since 2013 Omnicar Auto has been the only authorised trader of Renault electric mobiles in Bulgaria. Renault offers the largest range of e-mobiles – Twizy, Zoe and Kangoo ZE responding to different transport requirements. Renault Zoe is the best selling EV in Europe. Omnicar Auto offers demonstration and test drive of the e-cars in the company’s trade centers in Sofia, Plovdiv and Burgas. Service stations, authorised by Renault, and free tow are also available for the Renault EV owners in the aforementioned cities. In 2017 Omnicar is planning to start selling Nissan electric mobiles and open up authorised service stations for their owners in Sofia, Plovdiv and Burgas.
Porsche Bulgaria
Porsche Bulgaria is a official importer of Volkswagen cars and light commercial vehicles since 2004 and also – importer of Audi automobiles. In 2016 the company released on the Bulgarian market the Volkswagen line of EVs e-Golf and e-up! and the PHEVs Gold GTE and Passat GTE. At the global level the German producer is planning transition towards fully electric automotive production in the next 20 years. Porsche Bulgaria believes also that this is the inevitable future if we want clean cities considering constantly growing urban population.
Chariot Motors
Chariot Motors develops and offers electric autobuses (Chariot e-bus) powered with leading ultracapacitors based technology. E-buses charge for 3-6 minutes at the last stop with a range of 25 km before the next charging. The e-bus is economically more effective than the other vehicles in the public transport and it has zero emissions of harmful gases. The Chariot e-buses run in Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo and Gabrovo, Belgrade and Tel Aviv.