(Finance) – Spring returns for the commercial vehicle marketwhich after the slight decline in February records double-digit growth, a result which is the result of the improved situation of chains Of supply. With 19,045 vehicles registered in March, according to UNRAE projections, the increase is 14% compared to the 16,706 units in the same month 2022. In first quarter the total number is 47,116 units+7.1% compared to the 44,011 registrations in January-March 2022.
Of particular note is the excellent result of long-term leasing, a channel which has achieved a 35% market share. THE electric means they rose in the month to a share of 4.4% of the total, however also the result of the accumulation of vehicles not delivered in the previous months due to supply difficulties. On this front, thinking in prospective terms, the stagnation of the fund available for incentives, which currently has a surplus of 97%.
“The data on the drawdown of the incentives and the enormous surplus of the fund, so far used only minimally, show that it is necessary to extend them both to other fuels, including diesel, against scrapping and, as UNRAE proposes, with decreasing amounts according to power supply and mass, and to rental companies that can help accelerate the energy transition”, underlines the President of UNRAE Michael Crisci.
But for the development of urban mobility of goods with zero or very low emissions, UNRAE also calls for the accelerated development of the infrastructure of recharging points. For this it is necessary: to introduce a tax credit 50% for private investments in fast charging (over 70 kW) from 2023 to 2025; issue as soon as possible implementing rules (now one month late) for the construction of recharging points on urban roads and highways, as required by the MASE decrees; accelerate the issue of the MIMIT implementing decree and the implementation of the specification Invitalia platform for access to the contribution for home charging infrastructure.
There market structure of the 1st two months, whose data are now consolidated, compared with the same period of 2022, confirms the double-digit drop in private individuals, which drop to 17.4% (-2.8 points). Also down rental long-term which stops at 27.7% share, with a drop of almost 4 points. Short-term rentals recovered, representing 4.9% of the market in the first two months, and self-registrations, 8.2% of the total. The companies rise by 1.5 points, to a 41.9% share.
On the front of engines, in the two-month period diesel recovers 4 points and rises to 80.1% of the preferences. Grows the LPG with a 3.8% share and pure electric vehicles, which rise to 3% of the total market. The petrol engine, which drops to 4.7% share, and the hybrid vehicles which stop at 7.9% share are down (more than 4 points less than in the first two months of 2022). Natural gas stops at just 0.2% of the total market.
There weighted average CO2 of vehicles with gross vehicle weight up to 3.5 t in the first two months of 2023 grew by 3.6% to 185.6 g/km (compared to 179.2 g/km in the same period of 2022).
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