Stellantis is experiencing difficulties in producing and selling electric cars in Italy.
The reasons, according to an article in the Financial Times, are multiple, and are to be found not only in the choices made by the company, but also in those adopted by the country.
If Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis, says that without an increase in subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles, the company may no longer be able to produce in Italy, the financial newspaper suggests that this is not the crux of the matter.
The real obstacles are rather the lack of infrastructure for recharging batteries throughout the country, and in particular in the South, which makes long journeys problematic, in addition to the fact that recharging batteries takes a long time and is expensive, given that the price of electricity in Italy it is the third highest in the world.
But, according to the Financial Times, there is another crucial question.
Italy and Fiat were late to the electric vehicle market, and the auto industry was slower than in other countries to shift component production from internal combustion engines to electric ones.
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