In Luxembourg, the Council of Environment Ministers of the EU countries reached an agreement giving the green light to the blocking of sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035. Indispensable in the eyes of Brussels for the zero emissions objective by 2050. But What do motorists think? A research by AutoScout24 shows the interest in the topic, which will involve all car owners, so much so that 96% of the sample declares that they have followed it very well (54%) or at least superficially (42%). However, almost seven out of ten users declare doubts mainly regarding costs: for the majority of those interviewed, the price of electric cars is too high and far from the average budget available to users for purchasing a car (around €24,600)
The ecological transition is increasingly urgent, so much so that Overshoot Day 2022 fell on Thursday 28 July. Overshoot Day is the day on the global calendar that commemorates when humanity has exhausted the earth's natural resources. This year, one day earlier than 2021 (according to calculations by the Global Footprint Network, the international research organization that measures our ecological footprint), the world population has already consumed the resources available for 2022 by exploiting those of the following year. Reducing internal combustion engine cars by 50% would move this anniversary by at least 13 days
Beyond personal choices, we must also consider the impact that the measure will have on the market and on purchasing habits. In recent years, Italians' sensitivity towards hybrid and electric cars has grown significantly, as confirmed in the first five months of the year by both the data on new car sales (41.5% of the total) and the increase of +31%. % of requests for hybrid and electric cars. But this mainly concerns hybrid cars. If we consider pure electric vehicles (BEV), however, sales today represent only 3.9% of the total number of new cars (UNRAE data, May 2022). The interviewees, if the decision to block the production of traditional power supplies were confirmed, declared that they would focus on the used market. In fact, to facilitate such an epochal transition, it will first be necessary to eliminate the main barriers that limit the development of electric in Italy, making this power supply suitable for the different mobility habits of motorists, such as for those who use the car for work or for travel.
