(Finance) – The Italian car market in July has registered 109,580 registrations, down marginally (-0.8%) compared to the same month of 2021, after a six-month period of heavy double-digit drops. Last year, July with 110,514 units had in turn registered -19.2% on 2020 and -27.9% on 2019. In the first seven months the volume of registrations stands at 793,856 units, equal to a drop of 20.3% compared to 2021 and 35.8% compared to 2019, according to data from the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility.
THE transfers of ownership there were 376,716 compared to 313,150 passages recorded in July 2021, with an increase of 20.3%. The global volume of monthly sales, equal to 486,296 units, involved 22.53% new cars and 77.47% used cars. The 10 best-selling cars were: Fiat Panda (7.073), Volkswagen T-Roc (3.349), Citroen C3 (3.126), Lancia Ypsilon (3.099), Fiat 500X (2.759), Peugeot 208 (2.638), Fiat 500 (2.579), Dacia Sandero ( 2,540), Jeep Renegade (2,493), Toyota Yaris Cross (2,356).
Expert comments
“The car market in Italy, but also in Europe, is located sandwiched between two emergencies. A crisis in demand and a serious crisis in supply too “, comments the president of the Centro Studi Promotor, Gian Primo Quagliano. “Despite the downsizing of demand – continues Quagliano – the shortage of products is now so strong that it has very negative effects for potential buyers of both new and used cars”.
“We are still witnessing a negative result for the car market (-0.85% in July), although substantially stable compared to what was recorded twelve months ago, with an overall downward trend in the market”, he declares instead. Adolfo De Stefani Cosentino, president of Federauto, the Federation of car dealers. “In a period of strong economic uncertainty – continues De Stefani – with a crisis that has lasted for over two years, the wait for the new national political framework further dilutes the timing of decisions risking worsening the very difficult situation of our companies and our customers “.
The numbers by fuel system
The detail for power shows a trend reversal for the a motor gas which returns to the positive sign, touching 30% of preferences (+2.6 pp, to 27.9% in 7 months), while the diesel – with double-digit declining volumes – it loses more than 2 points, stopping at 20.7%, in line with the cumulative, UNRAE points out. The LPG which loses half a point, to 7.9% of the total, while a new, very heavy collapse brings methane back to 0.6% of the market (1% in the cumulative).
The ECV cars, despite the incentives, marked significant downsizing of share: the PHEVwith a drop in volumes of 19.2%, dropped to 4.6% (-1.1 pp), the worst share of the year, and BEV 3.3% of preferences (-29.2% of volumes), on a minimum share (5.3% and 3.6% respectively in 7 months). They grow in the month le hybrid which reach 33.1% share, in line with the cumulative January-July; with 9.7% for full hybrids and 23.4% for mild hybrids.
The incentives
“In the first half of 2022, 51% of the cars with very low and low emissions up to 60 g / km, were purchased by charterers, organizations and companieschannels that cover 32% of the total car market: clear proof that the inclusion of legal entities among the beneficiaries of the incentives is essential to relaunch the energy transition underway in a broad and effective way “, observes the president of UNRAE Michele Crisci.
“In the alternative – he adds – it is at least It is necessary to extend the incentives to private individuals who use long-term rentala category of consumers excluded for no reason, applying discrimination against them without reason, based on the way the car is procured “.