In the Old Continent, problems related to the green transition continue. Let’s find out why electric doesn’t sell, especially in Italy.
Why should an Italian who grew up on bread and the smell of petrol invest a lot of money to experience it electrical technology? Well, the first problem is that for a purist it would be an experiment and many, after trying an EV, decide to take a quick step back. The lack of sound for many vehicle categories is already a huge problem. A sane person who has not embraced the ideals of little Greta, who has now grown up, would never consider purchasing a 100% electric sports car. Question of driving pleasure, whale weight and principles contrary to sportsmanship itself.
Electric cars have not become economical over the years, except for incentives that are doping the car market for a short period of the year, and what’s more they cause sensational performance anxiety. The lack of a dense network of charging stations represents a very serious problem in everyday life on long journeys. These are vehicles that can have the same appeal as an empty Sunday winter afternoon without competitions on TV.
Electrical damage
It is the Brussels bureaucrats who are pushing a technology that has chosen a terrible historical moment to impose itself. With a huge crisis underway, Europeans are forced to think about priorities and EVs will never be for those who have driven cars with V6 and V8 engines, not to mention V12s. The manufacturers who have launched themselves into this technology with extreme optimism are paying a big hole in their budgets. Stellantis, Volkswagen and other majors who thought they could challenge the Chinese giants found themselves with declining turnover, workers fired or laid off.
The European industrial landscape is in trouble. Northvolt it is the emblem of European green failure. With a sensational deficit of 5.8 billion euros, the company based in Northern Europe has canceled the Borlänge plant in Sweden, has put the German Northvolt Zwei project on hold and is unable to close the ramp-up of the Skellefteå headquarters. Italvolt it’s an officially canceled project. ACC: joint venture between Stellantis, Mercedes and TotalEnergies has stopped. Ford had a 40% reduction in the size of its battery factory. AMTE Power, in the UK, disappeared from radar and then cancelled. There are many realities that have not lived up to the green proclamations of the European Commission.
