The operational director of the European area, Jean-Philippe Imparato, who spoke at the Automotive Dealer Day in Verona, announced changes to the production plan for the factories in Italy that Stellantis had launched last December. Cost of work and energy the main problems for Europe. Approved a small car today costs about three thousand euros more due to the regulations on Crash Test and Adas
The “Italian Plan” presented on December 17, 2024 by Stellantis will be updated and re -presented in June, taking into account the new market conditions. To anticipate it was Jean-Philippe Imparato, Chief Operating Officer for the Enlarged Europe Region of Stellantis (i.e. operational director of the EU markets, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Norway) during his intervention toAutomotive Dealer Daythe event dedicated to the distribution of cars and automotive services in progress these days in Verona. “We believe that Italy deserves to be supported by Stellantis”, explained Imparato, “So we presented a plan concerning all the Italian factories of the group, from Mirafiori, where the new 500 hybrid will be produced from November with a potential of 130 thousand specimens, in Pomigliano, where we will make a compact car media and the new pandina from 2029, up to Melfi”. However, since last December, many things have happened in Europe, thanks also to the actions of the Italian government, increasing the ability to sell hybrid models in Europe and also in Italy: “for this”, continued the manager Stellantis, “it is necessary to update the plan, seeing the government in a few days, for Introduce updates at the level of engines, commercial vehicles and Maseratifor which we have already declared to want to do something clear and serious in December, being a fantastic brand. ” The Italian plan updated will be presented in June And, a word of learned, “it will do it, you will do it until the end, because we do not want to give up: I do not share the concept according to which the war is over and the Chinese won, Our intention is to do our job and to do it with the dealers networkwithout which you cannot advance “.
cost of work
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All this does not mean that the difficulties do not exist for the sector: “When examining the costs”, explained Imparato, “there are 40 euros per kW of advantage for the Chinese on the cost of the battery; Producing in Europe is a challenge, which can be overcome. The key points are the cost of labor and that of energy: Producing a car in France costs twice that costs in Spain, in Italy three times, in Germany four times so. The cost of energy is added that of regulations: the countries of Southern Europe, such as Italy, Spain, France and Portugal, prefer the models of the B. Respect the European rules for safety, Crash Test and Adas, costs 2-3 thousand euros more beyond the production price: it is no longer acceptable. We want to produce here, but at competitive costs, therefore we must also lighten the costs of the rules that are perhaps more important than that of work “. They are objectives to be” brought quickly at home, with discussions that will begin with Acea in June (The Association of European Manufacturers, editor’s note), but which require rapid shock, to allow the survival of the European industry in the sector “.
sell more hybrid
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The objective of emissions set for Stellantis provides for 20% of electric cars in the period 2025-27 to avoid the EU fines, but at the continental level the BET market is stopped at 17%. “Do we want to kill 13 million European workers in the sector?” He wondered learned; “Pushing on the net,” he continued, “it could be reached 15-20%, killing everyone’s margins, without reaching the required level and without solving the problem, which is different: We work on a market of 15 million new cars, on a circulating park of 256 million, half of which is more than ten years old. Our official setting maintains that we need to work to renew the circulating park by selling as much hybrid cars as much as possible, plug-in, range extended to bring down the real and global emissions of the park, obtaining an effect on the far higher CO2 emissions of that obtainable by selling new electric cars. To get there you need a European scrapping of all cars with more than ten years and commercial vehicles with more than seven; In addition, a simplification of the legislation is needed, because it approves a segment B car and a 150 thousand euro sedan has the same cost and this is unsustainable. The only cost of production of a car ranges from 500 to 2,000 euros, that of approval from 2,000 to 3,000 euros. Finally, it is necessary to work on European integration to overcome the competitive gap in the production costs of batteries compared to Chinese producers “.
affordable prices
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Finally, for learned, the new models do not constitute a problem: “Between the second half of 2024 and the first of 2025 we will reach 14 launches: my challenge is to bring home the greatest number of sales of hybrid cars, because not everyone wants electricity and I believe that in 2030 the BET quota will be about 40%, certainly not 100%. So we need cars that people can buy, at affordable prices“, Imported learned.
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