The Government holds back on incentives for e-cars: 'They cost too much'

    The government holds back on incentives as the only way to make electric cars accessible.

To boost sales, prices must also be lowered.

A response to manufacturers, such as Stellantis, who are asking for help to support the spread of e-cars, which are still too expensive due to the high price of raw materials.

"Without incentives, electric cars are still too expensive for the middle class. The challenge is how quickly you can reduce costs to sell them even without them. Just look at what happened in Germany: as soon as the incentives were suspended, the market collapsed," said CEO Carlos Tavares.

    "When there were 6,000 electric cars the first year, 60,000 the second year, there could have been government incentives, but if we look at millions or hundreds of thousands of purchases, the incentives probably have some effect on the state budget. would have and it becomes very difficult", explains the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto.

"No one questions the electric car, it is a goal to be achieved - said the minister - even if not completely electric because there are internal combustion engines that can use biofuels, biomethane, which can work. The accompaniment must be paired with the the fact that the industry must have a possible price in favor of the community.Today the electric car is made only for the rich,

    Unrae, the association of foreign car manufacturers in Italy, highlights that the vehicle fleet is inexorably aging, the share of electrified cars in 2022 has decreased, the development of the charging infrastructure network is proceeding slowly.

However, the energy transition is progressing and in 2022 the share of petrol engines fell from 30% to 27.7% and that of diesels from 22.1% to 19.6%, leaving the leadership to hybrid cars which rise to 34% .

However, electrics (pure and plug-in hybrids) suffered a drastic setback, losing 20,000 units in 2022 (-14.8%) and dropping to 8.8% (mainly due to the decline in pure electrics) , blocking Italy in last place among the 5 major markets.

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