leave 10% of diesel and petrol vehicles – Corriere.it

The acknowledgment. In the aftermath of the EU Parliament’s vote to stop the sale of cars and vans with petrol or diesel engines from 2035, the government is becoming aware of the risks that the Italian automotive industry runs. The instinctive reaction is to reopen the discussion with Brussels for a transition to less traumatic electric mobility. Italy is lagging behind in the transition in the auto sector and we need to accelerate investments – explains Adolfo Urso, Minister of Industry and Made in Italy – but the times and ways that Europe imposes on us do not coincide with the European and above all Italian reality. An observation that Urso accompanies with the figures that summarize the complexity of the game. In Italy there are 36,000 charging points against 90,000 in the Netherlands. We have to deal with Europe. 250,000 people work in the automotive sector, with these times and these methods there is a risk of employment. An estimate of the effects of the measure adopted in Brussels provided by Confapi. The stop to endothermic engines from 2035 will put small and medium-sized Italian industries in difficulty. In fact, over 2,200 companies and 195,000 jobs are at risk, observes Corrado Alberto, vice president of the Confederation of small and medium-sized industries.

The Deputy Prime Minister

The foreign minister and deputy prime minister, Antonio Tajani, also intervened on behalf of the government. I am a great supporter of the electric car but ambitious goals must be achieved seriously, not just on paper. Italy will put forward its own counter-proposal: limit the reduction to 90%, giving industries the opportunity to adapt, underlined Tajani, recalling: We must defend our automotive industry. In short, the center-right is united against the vote of the European Parliament, while from the ranks of the Democratic Party Stefano Bonaccini invites us to have courage in governing the transition because there is plenty of time to accompany these transformations. From the former capital of the car to speak the president of the Industrial Union of Turin, Giorgio Marsiaj. We hope that an equilibrium solution can be recovered. There are spaces to mediate, you just need to want it. It makes no sense to impose a technical solution knowing that it puts us in the hands of Chinese suppliers (for the batteries, ed). We need to find a solution that doesn’t put us in the conditions of dependence we found ourselves in with Russian gas. A further alarm signaled by Federcarrozzieri: repairs for electric cars will be more expensive (up to +30%) than for petrol or diesel cars.