(Finance) – Commercial vehicles in strong acceleration also in September: with 17,670 registrations compared to 12,345 in September 2022, the sector records a record growth of 43.1%. In the nine months the increase was 16.5%, with 140,222 vehicles registered compared to 120,372 in January-September 2022. However, requests for incentives, foreseen for the purchase of a new electrically powered vehicle in scrapping front. The fund available until December 31st still has a surplus of 93%. According to the Invitalia data in the first nine months of the year only 146 incentive requests were submitted. The share of
pure electric commercial vehicles registered so far does not exceed 3.6% of the total market. This is what theUNRAE – National Union of Foreign Vehicle Representatives relating to the Commercial Vehicle Market in a report relating to Commercial Vehicle Market in September 2023.
“With these data, which are certainly not exciting, to be able to achieve the objectives of decarbonisation of freight transport, a specific plan from the Government is needed which indicates a clear strategy with a view to the green transition, also in view of the decisions on the Euro 7 Regulation – he states The President of UNRAE Michele Crisci –. The most urgent measure, which has long been called for by UNRAE, concerns the revision of the incentive scheme, primarily by eliminating the scrapping obligation for the purchase of electric vehicles and including rental companies among the beneficiaries, which can only contribute to accelerate the energy transition. In parallel, it is necessary to guarantee the maximum diffusion of charging infrastructures, encouraging it with a 50% tax credit for private investments in fast charging (over 70 kW) from 2023 to 2025. Finally – concludes Crisci – we hope that they will be the conditions will soon be created by MASE to formulate proposals for public charging infrastructures on expressways and extra-urban roads and, at the same time, we note that finally, after more than three years, the operational measures have been issued that allow the use of the funds allocated for infrastructure
charging for professionals and businesses”.
There market structure of the first 9 months, with slightly provisional data, compared with the same period in 2022, confirms the decline in private sales among the sales channels, at 15.2% share (-3.6 pp). Car registrations rise to 8.0% share, long-term rental recovers 1.2 points, to 31.6% of the total. Short-term rental rises to 6.3% (+1.7 points), companies drop to 39.0% share (-2.1 pp). On the engine front, in the first 9 months diesel gained 3.7 points and reached a 79.8% share, LPG was quite stable at 3.1% of the total, BEV vehicles rose to 3.6% of preferences ( +1.2 pp), plug-ins at 0.7% of the total. Petrol vehicles declined, stopping at 4.2% share (-1.7 pp) and hybrid vehicles at 8.4% share (-2.4 pp). Methane represents just 0.2% of the total market.
There CO2 weighted average of vehicles with gross vehicle weight up to 3.5 t in the 9 months of 2023 it grows by 3.1% to 187.1 g/Km (compared to 181.5 g/Km in the same period of 2022).