Italy is lagging behind in terms of electric vehicle sales due to a lack of capillarity of recharging points. This was explained by Andrea Cardinali, general director of Unrae, the National Union of Foreign Motor Vehicle Representatives. “Italy – he underlines – is a ‘spoiled’ country: we have always been the country with the greatest capillarity of fuel dispensers, the Italian is used to making gasoline at home. We are exactly in the opposite situation as regards electric refills. , that is, we are the ones who have the least in proportion to the road network “and for this reason” on the part of the consumer there is the so-called ‘autonomy anxiety’ “.
“For years, talking to the big utilities, we have been told that as long as there was no adequate circulation it made no sense to put columns, but it is like saying that as long as people don’t buy a cell phone, we don’t use repeaters. It makes no sense. It is a problem of very easy resolution: no one buys an electric car if he is not sure of being able to recharge it “, underlines Cardinali. “Today Italy is at 2.7 recharging points on 100 km of road. We have a European average of 4.9 and then the real markets – where the electric is walking – such as Holland which is at 48 recharging points. . Norway is at 30, Switzerland at 11, the United Kingdom at 8, Germany at 7 “, underlines Cardinali.
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