The transition towards sustainable mobility is progressing slowly and the CEO of Stellantis, Carlos Tavares, is well aware of the fact that incentives are needed to push the sales of electric cars. In fact, without it the Portuguese manager does not see a rosy future for the registrations of EVs which are struggling to get going. In fact, motorists need the ecobonus to bring down the price of the models on tap.
Stellantis and the importance of incentives
“It is necessary to support consumers to make electric cars affordable – explained Tavares during Bernstein’s Annual Strategic Decisions Conference – Is there a global warming problem? All right. But if you don’t help me, I won’t help you. Look at Germany, as soon as the incentives ended, sales of electric cars collapsed.” The number one of the group born from the merger between FCA and PSA then also spoke about the supply chain, highlighting how the electric sector will also change the balance and to keep costs low, more and more companies will turn elsewhere for components compared to the current retailers: “There will be a significant burden on suppliers, there will be a huge change in the base: supply will move from the Western world to the countries that offer the best costs.”
