Pichetto, 'few electric cars in Italy for economic reasons' - World Motors. Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, said this today in an interview via video at the LetExpo exhibition in Verona.

"If in Italy - the minister specified - it takes 5-6 years of average salary to buy an electric car and in Germany it takes three, it is clear that there is a substantial difference and in this case technology has nothing to do with it."