(Finance) – For seven consecutive months the national commercial vehicle market (up to 3.5 t of total weight on the ground) marks a constant reduction in registrations. In fact, a new heavy double-digit decline also affected the summer months, with 12,755 units registered in July (-19.5% compared to 15,838 units in July 2021) and 8,100 vehicles ad August (-12.2% on 9,228 in August 2021). The UNRAE Study and Statistics Center shows a total of 108,045 vehicles registered for the first eight months, with a decrease of 12.3% and over 15,000 units less than in the same period of 2021.
They are having a modest effect incentives the purchase of new vehicles, which are practically stopped due to lack of requests due to the exclusion from the benefit of that li a combustion traditional with obligation of scrapping, a category that represents 98% of
market. “The decision to foreclose access to incentives for vehicles with traditional combustion engines of the latest generation, produces a clear negative impact on the renewal process of the fleet” underlines the President of UNRAE Michele Believe. “On the roads, according to the data as of June 30th, 4,180,000 commercial vehicles are circulating, 42.2% of which are before Euro 4, therefore with more than 16 years of service: with the current turnover rate, the entire fleet would be replaced only in 22.5 years, in 2045 ”.
“But in addition to the incentives – adds Crisci – to support the diffusion of zero-emission vehicles remains a priority to have a solid net infrastructuralespecially through larger contributions and leaner procedures to obtain tax relief for the installation of recharges private“.
There structure of the market in the first 7 months (with data still susceptible to slight adjustments in the next two months, due to registration delays), compared with the same period 2021, shows a further deterioration of private individuals who lose 27.5% of volumes and about 4 share points (at 18.8%), of self-registrations, which fell to 4.6% and companies to 41%. The short-term rental reduces the decline, however losing about 1/3 of the volumes (to 4.3% share), while the long-term rental, the only one to record a growth in registrations, gains over 9 points reaching 31, 4% of the commercial vehicle market.
On the front of engines, diesel stops at 75.8% share (-9.2 pp), petrol reaches 6.3% of the total (+3.0 pp), LPG buys three decimal places (at 3% share ), methane drops to 1.7%. Hybrid vehicles double in share, to 10.7% of preferences, electric ones rise to 2.1%. There Weighted average CO2 of vehicles with ptt up to 3.5 t in the first 7 months fell by 7.8% to 180.9
g / Km (compared to 196.3 g / Km in the same period of 2021).
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