{"id":358550,"date":"2024-05-06T13:33:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T11:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/05\/06\/italia-ue-auto-private-elettrico\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T17:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T15:56:11","slug":"italy-sets-record-eu-passenger-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/05\/06\/italy-sets-record-eu-passenger-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy sets record in EU for passenger cars: in Val d’Aosta there are 2.3 per inhabitant. Still behind on electric"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Italy is a Republic founded on…passenger cars. The Statistical Office of the European Union counted 45,667 million of them in 2022, with as many as six\u00a0Italian regions in the top 10 in Europe for motorization rate<\/strong>. But conversion to electric cars\u00a0remains a chimera: in the EU, Italy does better only than Spain, Greece, the Czech Republic, and Poland.<\/p>\n

There were an average of 0.56 cars per inhabitant\u00a0in the EU in 2022,<\/a>\u00a0Eurostat data showed. But considerable regional differences emerge, with\u00a0over two\u00a0cars per inhabitant in Valle d’Aosta to 0.08 in Mayotte, a French archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The podium is all Italian:\u00a0the record motorization rate in\u00a0Val d’Aosta, with 2,339 cars per thousand inhabitants, was followed by the Autonomous Province of Trento with 1,431 and Bolzano with 935<\/strong>.\u00a0Six of the 10 regions with the highest motorization rate were in Italy. The other four were in Finland, Greece, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

Val d’Aosta’s record rate reflected\u00a0favorable tax regulations and\u00a0territory-specific conditions. At the other end of the range, the French overseas region Mayotte (83 passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants) was followed by Greek Peloponnisos (203 per 1,000 inhabitants) and French Guyane (217 per 1,000 inhabitants). Four of the\u00a010 regions with the lowest motorization rates were in Greece In addition to the two French overseas territories and two regions in Romania, the results obtained by the metropolitan areas of the capitals of Germany and Austria are relevant: in Berlin, there were only 331 cars per 1,000 inhabitants, and in Vienna 366<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The high number of passenger cars in Italy is actually reflects the past, considering that in the last two decades, Italy saw among the lowest average growth rates in the\u00a0EU.<\/p>\n

During 2002-2022, almost all member states\u00a0experienced an increase in the motorization rate: in first place,\u00a0Romania, with a rate of +5.7 percent per year<\/strong>, followed by Estonia (+3.9 percent) and Poland (+3.6 percent). At the opposite end of the scale, the Netherlands (+0.8 percent), France, Italy, Malta, and Austria (+0.7 percent), Belgium (+0.5 percent), Germany (+0.4 percent), Luxembourg, and Sweden (+0.2 percent) were the only member states to record average annual growth rates below 1 percent.<\/p>\n

Netherlands and Sweden lead conversion to electric<\/h3>\n

The regions of the Netherlands and Sweden stood out among the EU regions with the highest share of electric cars. In the Flevoland region, over\u00a0one in ten cars is already electric (12.8 percent), while in Utrecht and Stockholm, 6.6 percent<\/strong>. In the European top ten, four regions are in the Netherlands, four in Sweden, one in Luxembourg, and one in Austria. At the end of the line, with shares of electric cars close to zero, are seven\u00a0regions in Greece and one each in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Spain.<\/p>\n

The share of electric cars is also negligible in most Italian regions due to several factors, including\u00a0government incentives (tax cuts or subsidies), availability,\u00a0access to charging stations, and\u00a0the supply of electric cars and their cost.\u00a0Excluding the autonomous province of Trento (2.66 percent), only Tuscany (0.58 percent) is just over 0.5 percent.<\/strong>\u00a0There are 158,000 electric cars\u00a0in Italy, up from 12,000 in 2018. But still far from the 330,000 already circulating in the Netherlands, the nearly 600,000 in France, and the over\u00a0one million in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2022 there was an average of 0.56 cars per inhabitant in the EU, the same as in the previous year. Six out of the 10 regions with the highest motorization rates are in Italy. Among the 27 member states, Netherlands and Sweden furthest ahead in the conversion to electric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":278422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[25810,27766],"class_list":["post-358550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-auto-en","tag-auto-electric-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358550"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359152,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358550\/revisions\/359152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}