Cars: + 5.5% registrations in Italy in 2021

The Italian car market closed 2021 with 1,457,952 registrations, up 5.5% compared to 2020. 86,679 cars were sold in December, 27.54% less than in the same month of the previous year.

The data are from the

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In 2021 the

registered 549,775 cars in Italy, 2.6% more than in 2020. The share is 37.7% compared to 38.8% the previous year.

In December the group sold 31,687 cars, down 34.8%, with the share dropping to 36.6% from 40.6%.

"The first statistic for 2021, that on car registrations, is unfortunately catastrophic".

The

underlines this

, according to which the regular replacement of the vehicle fleet (40 million cars) cannot thus be ensured and a further aging of the cars is determined with highly negative effects on pollution and safety. The Centro Studi Promotor explains that compared to 2019, "the decline is as much as 23.9%" and that for 2022 the forecast is 1,500,000 registrations. "If this were the case - he explains - in the three-year period 2020-2022, 4,339,708 would be registered in Italy against the minimum level of six million necessary to avoid further decay of the aging car fleet. The factors are the same that determined the disastrous results of 2021. : the persistence of the pandemic, the economy in recovery but with many sectors and people in difficulty, the microchip crisis,the disorientation of buyers in view of an ecological transition that does not take off, the agitation of dealers due to the decision of many car manufacturers to want to go beyond the distribution system based on dealerships "." In this context that is anything but reassuring - comments Gian Primo Quagliano, president of the Centro Studi Promotor - it is necessary that, as in other countries, an organic transition project to electricity must be launched with a three-year incentive plan for the purchase and scrapping of euro 6d cars with low CO2 emissions and for the purchase, with or without scrapping, of electric cars. This measure should be structural and should provide for an allocation of at least three billion over the three-year period,should be immediately accompanied by incentives for the development of charging infrastructures, by an action of correct user information, by the indication of the sources of financing for the transition to electricity, by the indication of compensatory measures to neutralize the effect of the drop in employment and production linked to the ecological transition and to ensure that the electricity needs generated by the new mobility are covered only with renewable sources ".effect of the drop in employment and production linked to the ecological transition and to ensure that the electricity needs generated by the new mobility are covered only with renewable sources ".effect of the drop in employment and production linked to the ecological transition and to ensure that the electricity needs generated by the new mobility are covered only with renewable sources ".

"The

reiterates the strong disconcertment over the Institutions' decision not to assign the economic resources necessary to incentivize the car market with a three-year plan in the Budget Law. So far, the scarce resources allocated with 'stop and go' interventions have had a positive impact in promoting electric mobility: registrations of full-electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid vehicles have, in fact, increased by 274% in the last year and a half, with undoubted positive impact on the renewal of the park and on the reduction of emissions ". This was stated by the president Michele Crisci." The absence of an at least medium-term strategy, with an organic intervention plan - adds Crisci - will make economic costs of the transition on consumers,and the social costs on workers in a sector that generates a turnover commensurate with 20% of GDP. Faced with the discouraging signal of a Budget Law lacking attention to a fundamental sector of the ecological transition, Unrae supports the urgent need to set up a working group that defines a strategy aimed at encouraging the diffusion of latest generation cars, accelerating the renewal of the fleet, promote recharging infrastructures and launch the tax reform of the sector ".Unrae supports the urgent need to set up a working group that defines a strategy aimed at encouraging the diffusion of latest generation cars, accelerating the renewal of the fleet, promoting recharging infrastructures and launching the tax reform of the sector ".Unrae supports the urgent need to set up a working group that defines a strategy aimed at encouraging the diffusion of latest generation cars, accelerating the renewal of the fleet, promoting recharging infrastructures and launching the tax reform of the sector ".