According to Reuters, Italy’s FIM-CISL union said that in the first three months of this year, automaker Stellantis’s production of passenger cars and vans in Italy fell 9.
8% year-on-year to 170415.
Photo: Stellantis, Stellantis is currently in discussions with the Italian government on a plan to reverse the country’s multi-year decline and restore production to 1 million vehicles around 2030, which means that total production will increase by 25 per cent compared with last year.
Ferdinando Uliano, head of FIM-CISL, said in a presentation of Stellantis’s quarterly production that the first-quarter figures “put Stellantis further and further away from its target of 1 million vehicles.
” However, the carmaker noted that production targets depended on a number of factors, including incentives for car consumption, lower energy costs and the development of electric vehicle charging networks.
FIM-CISL said production at the Stellantis Mirafiori (Mirafiori) plant fell 51 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier, due to delays in the Italian incentive scheme for new car purchases and weak global demand for all-electric cars.
Based on first-quarter data, the union expects Stellantis to produce 630000 vehicles in Italy in 2024, down from 751000 last year.
However, this forecast does not take into account the 2024 car purchase incentive plan announced by the government.
It is reported that the plan is expected to take effect this quarter, worth about 950 million euros ($1 billion).
“We believe this forecast will improve this year,” Uliano said, adding that according to Stellantis’s expectations, the new car incentive program could increase sales of Fiat 500 pure electric vehicles by 20, 000 units in 2024.
In response to the report, a spokesman for Stellantis said the company does not usually comment on the production data released by the union.
, return to the first electric network home page >.