A business that of electric mobility, which considering the entire supply chain can reach a turnover of 100 billion by 2025 and triple that by 2030, involving 160 companies and over 800 employees, with savings on public spending estimated over time at 35-50 billion. According to Enel's estimates, presented at the Ambrosetti workshop in Cernobbio by CEO Francesco Starace and Francesco Venturini, the electric revolution can no longer be postponed.
“The risk – added the former Minister of Research and now a member of the European Affairs Commission, Maria Chiara Carrozza – is to become the country where electric cars manufactured elsewhere will be driven. This means that jobs will be lost and no new ones will be created”.
At the moment Italy is still behind, as shown by the data of a study carried out by Enel in collaboration with Ambrosetti – The European House: there are now 2 million electric vehicles in the world, with a year-on-year growth of almost 100% since 2005, while in Italy the annual growth trend is 41% and vehicles circulating throughout 2016 are less than 10 thousand, most of which thanks to electric car sharing. The lion's share globally is obviously China, which already has 650 in circulation and plans to sell 2 million by 2020 and reach 20% of the car market share by 2025.
Norway, on the other hand, is in first place in proportion, already having over 5% of the market share, while California alone expects to have 1,5 million by 2025 and more or less between that date and 2040 other countries such as France, the United Kingdom The United Kingdom and the Netherlands will ban the registration of petrol or diesel cars. Finally, Japan expects that by 2030 50-70% of vehicles on the road will be new generation (most of which are electric).
In many of these countries there are strong incentives, but this is not the policy Enel intends to suggest: “The incentive system – said Starace – was born old. That's not the way to go, at least at first." “In reality – added Venturini, who is Enel's global director of e-Solutions – the cost of using the two types of cars, the combustion and the electric ones, will be equal in less than ten years, in 2025. This is because the price of batteries is steadily going down”.
But the problem, as well as costs, is infrastructural: “Apart from the cost of the electric car, in order for it to penetrate the market, there needs to be an adequate infrastructure system. For this reason Enel - said Venturini - will invest from 100 to 300 million euros in the next plan that we will present shortly: a figure that varies depending on how many charging stations will be needed and therefore depending on how many vehicles will be in circulation".
