WEDGE -Continental, which has sustainability as a founding value, every year it invests huge resources in research and development to create compatible products and services with the ever-increasing demands related to environmental issues, which must be combined with the needs of mobility and of competitiveness of people and companies. With this in mind, it has chosen the cycling platform and to be Top Sponsor of the largest Italian cycling event, the Giro D’Italiato raise awareness and delve deeper into the issues of the impact of mobility with a Observatory which photographs the current situation of the main provinces touched by the Giro.
Cuneo and its province show interesting data from this point of view. Starting from the fact that between 2022 and 2023 hybrid car registration increased by 11.22% going from 5,098 to 5,670 units. The situation on the electricity front is also positive: +3.49% in the same period, with the transition from 516 to 534 units.
Consider that the fleet circulating in this city is composed 72.3% from cars (against 74.6% recorded at a national level), 12.9% from motorcycles (13.7% at a national level) and 10.1% from goods transport trucks (8.2%). The rest concerns residual shares of other vehicles (such as buses, special trucks, three-wheelers…).
Another useful aspect for developing the concept of sustainability in the territory concerns the emission category of motor vehicles: the most represented is Euro 6, which covers 32.1% of the circulating capital. A better figure than the national average, which stands at 29.6%. Followed by Euro 4 with 18.8% (19.5% at national level) and Euro 5 with 15.9% (14.8% at national level). It should be highlighted that there remains a small incidence of Euro 0 category vehicles, which represent 11.2% of the total (the national average reaches 11.7%).
This last analysis is consistently confirmed if we shift attention to the age of the fleet: the vehicles in circulation in Cuneo and its province with an age ranging from 5 to 10 years are 21.3% of the total (in Italy they are 19% ); followed by vehicles from 10 to 15 years which are 17.5% and from 15 to 20 years with 16.9% (in Italy they are 18%).
In the nutrition chapter, diesel dominates with 45% of vehicles compared to a lower percentage at national level, 40.4%. Not far away is petrol with 43.2% (46.1% at a national level). The data on the diffusion of electrified vehicles is interesting: electric is at 0.4% of the total, a percentage in line with the national figure, stuck at 0.5%; better i hybrid vehicles (both petrol and diesel) which are attested in the province of Cuneo to 3.8% of the total (4.1% the Italian average).
Some interesting reflections can also be made by observing the data relating to used car sales: as regards the electrical one was recorded between 2022 and 2023 contraction by 5.36%, or from 168 to 159 units. For thehybridinstead, there was a leap forward of 47.35%, with the passage from 1,225 to 1,805 units. The sensitivity demonstrated in the province of Cuneo towards electric and electrified cars can benefit from one charging network made up of 266 points distributed in 106 areas.
