Stop petrol and diesel cars from 2035, 70 thousand seats at risk in Italy

The decision is made, petrol and diesel cars will no longer be able to be sold from 2035. In thirteen years the European market will have completely migrated towards zero-emission, electric or hydrogen vehicles. The European Commission proposal, accepted today by the European Parliament, envisages reducing the average emissions of new cars by 55% by 2030 and by 100% by 2035, compared to 2021 levels. ecological transition, becomes particularly challenging on an economic and social level. The change approved by the European Parliament will have consequences for the entire automotive sector and, in particular, for the industry which will have to accelerate the timing of its transition. And that is already struggling with the effects of the pandemic, those of the semiconductor crisis and with a now chronic delay in the delivery of new cars.The risk denounced by manufacturers and trade unions is that the most difficult consequences to face may come to the plan employment, not only the direct one of the car manufacturers, but also those of an induced that would be largely abandoned. Anfia, the National Association of the Automobile Industry Industry, intervened harshly as early as December 2021, when the Commission’s proposal was made known, and after the Interministerial Committee for the Ecological Transition (CITE) had defined the replacement times. of vehicles with internal combustion engines, deciding, in line with most advanced countries, that the phase out of new cars with internal combustion engines must take place by 2035. European component industry, which in a study quantified the occupational and economic damages deriving from the banning of internal combustion engines in 2035 and highlighted that Italy risks losing approximately 73,000 jobs by 2040, of which 67,000 already in the period 2025-2030.