Italian car market 2023, 19% growth in January

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For the Italian car market, 2022 ended negatively with a drop of almost 10%, despite a recovery in recent months. 2023, on the other hand, starts positively. In fact, the first month of the year marks growth of 19% compared to the same period in 2022. We are talking about 128,301 registrations against the 107,853 units registered. of the previous year. However, we are still far from the pre-pandemic values ​​(-21.7%).

With the arrival of the first data on registrations for 2023, UNRAE confirms the estimate of around 1.4 million registrationsfor the entire year, equal to a growth of 6.3% compared to 2022. However, the association warns that the auto market remains conditioned by negative economic prospects and by the shortage of products at least in the first part of the year.

Given the particularly negative results of the first half of 2022, UNRAE estimates that in the first part of 2023, the Italian car market should grow by double digits and then show substantial stability. in the rest of the year. Still speaking of forecasts for 2023, UNRAE points out that we should see slow growth in plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles with the hope that there will be an acceleration in the medium term thanks to the publication of the decrees of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, which have allocated 713 million euros for the installation, within the next three years, of over 21,000 new charging points in our country.

To make the incentives for electricity more effective, the President of the UNRAE, Michele Crisci, hopes for some corrective measures.

The MASE decrees certainly go in the right direction for the transition towards mobility in the workplace. sustainable, which however; it needs measures also aimed at the recovery of the market, starting with the inclusion among the beneficiaries of all legal persons without any exclusion and with full bonuses instead of halved and by the elimination of the price cap thresholds for electric cars or, at most, by providing for a single threshold of 50 thousand euros.

THE DATA OF JANUARY

Going back to the data of January 2023, on the user front, private individuals achieve a market share of 61.5%. Self-registrations, on the other hand, account for 9% of the total. Long-term rental continues to grow, obtaining a 22% market share. Short-term rental, on the other hand, obtains a market share of just 1.5%. The companies they reach 6% of the total.

As regards fuels, petrol cars obtain a share of 26.4%, while diesel ones 19.1%. LPG, on the other hand, rises to 10.3%. Natural gas is bad, stopping at a market share of 0.2%. The growth of hybrids continues, rising to a 36.7% share, with a 9.7% for “full” hybrid and 27.0% for the “mild” hybrid. Electric cars are bad. In January 2023, the market share stops at just 2.6%. Plug-ins, on the other hand, reach 4.7%.

On the automotive group front, Stellantis closed the month of January with growth of 13.15%. The Volkswagen Group did very well, achieving +41.40%. The Renault Group also did well with growth of 24.76%.

[Data source: UNRAE]

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