Sprint departure for the Italian car market in 2023: in January - according to data from the Ministry of Transport - 128,301 cars were registered, 18.96% more than in the same month of 2021.
The Stellantis group registered in January in Italy 43,342 cars, 12.3% more than in the same month of 2022. The share is 33.9% compared to 35.8% a year ago.
After the closing in December (+21% on December 2021) the Italian car market takes off like a rocket in 2023. To place this result in the right dimension - explains the
Promotor Study Center
- however, it must be said that compared to January 2019, i.e. the pre-pandemic situation, there was a drop of 22.4%.
This reduces but does not cancel the positive value of this beginning of the year.
From the monthly survey of the Centro Studi Promotor, conducted at the end of January, a decisive improvement emerges in the flow of visitors to the showrooms and in the acquisition of orders.
According to the president Gian Primo Quagliano, "it is legitimate to expect that the positive series that began last August will continue after thirteen consecutive declines, but this does not mean that the Italian market is about to overcome the very serious crisis that began in 2020 with the pandemic. The recovery is due to an easing of the difficulties generated by the shortage of microchips, but to return to normal (with a volume of registrations close to 2,000.
"Promising start to the new year for the auto market".
This is the comment of Unrae which maintains prudent forecasts for the year and confirms the estimate already indicated in recent months, of 1.4 million registrations, with a slight growth of 6.3% on 2022 equal to 83,000 more vehicles .
"The market in fact - observes
Unrae
- remains conditioned by negative economic prospects and, again, by the shortage of product at least in the first part of the year.
The comparison with the depressed trend of the first half of 2022 should, however, guarantee double-digit growth in the first part of 2023 and substantial stability in the rest of the year.
For the current year, a slow growth trend in electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles is expected, with the hope of an acceleration in the medium term". "The Mase decrees certainly go in the right direction for the transition towards sustainable mobility, which however also needs measures aimed at the recovery of the market, starting with the inclusion among the beneficiaries of all legal entities without any exclusion and with full rather than halved bonuses and from
Unrae Michele Crisci.
Crisci then recalls the urgency of the other Unrae proposals: "A provision is still needed that extends the deadlines for completing eco-bonus bookings from 180 to 360 days and, in terms of charging infrastructure, a push to speed up the the process of the recent decrees on the financing for the purchase and installation of charging stations by private individuals and condominiums which, to date, provide for very long implementation times".
Unrae Michele Crisci.
Crisci then recalls the urgency of the other Unrae proposals: "A provision is still needed that extends the deadlines for completing eco-bonus bookings from 180 to 360 days and, in terms of charging infrastructure, a push to speed up the the process of the recent decrees on the financing for the purchase and installation of charging stations by private individuals and condominiums which, to date, provide for very long implementation times".
"Positive opening of 2023 for the car market (+19%), which follows the double-digit increases recorded in the last three months of 2022. also thanks to one more working day compared to January 2022 (21 working days against 20) and in comparison with a heavy decline in the first month of 2022 (-19.7%)".
This was stated by Paolo Scudieri, president of
Anfia
.
On the power front - he explains - the registrations of rechargeable cars increased by 1.1% in the month, after the -16.6% recorded in December 2022 and -17.1% for the whole of 2022, and represent 7. 3% of the market (8.9% in 2022).
Among these, however, electric cars continue to show a negative sign, in line with the 2022 trend (-26.9%) and close the month of January 2023 at -11.2%, with a share of 2.5% .
Plug-in hybrids, on the other hand, grew by 9.2% and accounted for 4.8% of January registrations.
"The incentives currently in force - observes Scdiere - represent an important resource which we hope, in the coming months, will at least partially revive the sales of zero and low emission cars. As expected,
the incentive bracket for cars with CO2 emissions between 61 and 135 g/km is the one with the highest number of bookings and is already running out (with a residual of less than 25% of the fund).
In our opinion, it would be useful to encourage the renewal of vehicles from a green point of view to reinvest the resources left over from the 2022 incentive campaign in the latter range and in the 0-20 g/km CO2 range of the 2023 incentives."
