“Italy is late” on the transition in the auto sector and we must “accelerate investments” but the “times and ways that Europe imposes on us do not coincide with the European and above all Italian reality”. Thus the Minister of Industry and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, on “Radio anch’io” regarding the EU stop to vehicles with internal combustion engines in 2035.
«With these times and these methods – he added – there is an occupation risk and a job risk. We don’t have the time to reconvert our industrial system, because we started late and because several mistakes have been made in the past». In Italy there are 36,000 charging points compared to 90,000 in small Holland.
As for the incentives for electric cars, “they have remained largely unused, because electric cars cost too much for Italian wage earners and are today essentially the prerogative of the rich in Italy and we cannot make a strategy for the rich but we must make a strategy for everyone”.
Exhausted bonuses for low emission petrol and diesel
In fact, the 150 million incentives destined in 2023 for hybrid cars or low-emission petrol and diesel (M1 category vehicles with emissions in the range of 61-135 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer) sold out in less than a month. The reservations by the dealers were in fact taken on 10 January. Also zeroed the 5 million for non-electric mopeds and motorcycles.
Unused funds for electric cars
On the other hand, the funds for plug-in hybrid cars (emissions between 21 and 60 grams of CO2), originally equal to 235 million now reduced to 218.5 million, and those for electric cars (with emissions from 0 to 20 grams of CO2), originally at 190 million, now reduced to 173 million. Electric two-wheelers have had some success: the incentives amounting to 35 million are reduced by almost a third to just under 12 million euros.
