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Car fleet: in Sardinia it is among the oldest in Italy

In Sardinia, the car fleet in circulation is among the oldest in all of Italy. There are 412 thousand cars, 38.6% of all those registered, which have an engine size of less than € 4, and more than 423 thousand, 39.5%, have more than 15 years of seniority.

Numbers that place the island in seventh place among the regions with the oldest four wheels. While 4,077 Sardinian motorists own an electric or hybrid vehicle. Of these, 253 travel with fully electric cars while the remaining 3,824 are equipped with a hybrid petrol or diesel engine. Compared to 2017, electric grew by 65% ​​while hybrids by 43.5%.

The balance emerges from the dossier entitled “Environmental impact of cars in Sardinia” made by the Research Office of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna. The regional park is made up of 1,068,000 cars, 40.58% fueled by petrol, 57.34% by diesel, 5.8% by petrol and liquid gas, for 0.81 % from petrol and LPG while 0.8% refers to the almost 4 thousand hybrid and electric cars in circulation.

In detail, Nuoro has the oldest car fleet: 48% (107 thousand) of the cars are over 15 years old. Cagliari is the province with the youngest cars with 34% (171 thousand) of cars registered over 15 years ago. “Although the cars in circulation are still quite dated, we are witnessing a significant growth in vehicles with alternative propulsion to traditional petrol and diesel – comments Maria Amelia Lai, president of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna – even if, for now, they represent a minimal percentage compared to to the most common ones “.

(Unioneonline/s.s.)

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