“If there is no guarantee that the incentives will be put in place to support Italian production, and therefore they are purchasing incentives, move these incentives to the production sites. Ask Stellantis for a clear commitment. Incentives are put in place so that this can be done encourage car production in Italy”. This was said by the mayor of Turin, Stefano Lo Russo, during the presentation of the 2024 edition of the Auto Show. The world of politics and the institutional world is now targeting the incentives that Stellantis also enjoys to try to put pressure on the company to bring more production to our country. A few minutes later, again from the stage of the Auto Show, Matteo Salvini, the minister of infrastructure and transport, also highlighted his doubts about the current incentive system.
More production in Italy
“We are in a very important historical transition with regards to the size of the global automotive industry and this also influences the strategic choices of the Stellantis group and the repercussions on Turin. My hope is that we can address this issue by privileging the industry Italian, looking at Italy as a place of production”, explained the mayor of Turin in his speech, “I am a little perplexed about some strategies I read about importing Chinese and Asian industries”, he added, referring to what said last Friday again in Turin by Minister Urso.
“We have an important tradition in Turin that I believe must be maintained and must be carried forward. I believe that if there are public resources to support the car industry they should be used to support production in Italy. So I hope that, as they also do other governments on our continent, I am thinking of the Germans, the French and the Spanish, the Italian government must also support this industry. There is no guarantee that the incentives will be put in place to support Italian production, and therefore they are incentives for purchasing , move these incentives to the production sites. Ask Stellantis for a clear commitment to promote car production in Italy and within this framework, Turin, as is known, has nothing to envy of other places in the world. world and its entire productive fabric and the over 70,000 related workers will be ready for the challenge”.
Salvini: “Evaluate who the incentives go to”
“We need to evaluate who the incentives go to,” said Minister Salvini, “If I spend public money to help the Chinese I have to ask myself the problem.” A joke at the end of the event that simplifies a concept that the minister had already explained from the stage.
“The people who work in the auto sector in Italy are less than half of those who are employed in the distribution sector”, he explained, adding, “the bonuses that we are putting on the table rarely remain in Italy because if we are on electric cars, which in Italy is a marginal market, most of those sold are not Italian and European, but Chinese. We are in the free market, but the question we must ask ourselves is: what is the point of putting a billion in public money car bonuses on the table when a much of this doesn’t end in Turin, but in Beijing. I don’t want there to be an assisted suicide of an entire production chain. I think it’s unfair “.
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