Italy's car market grew by 7.6% in March thanks to incentives for electric vehicles
Volumes in the quarter remain 10 per cent below the 2019 quota - Fiat recovers 30 per cent of volumes since the beginning of the year, Chinese manufacturers run
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The tone in the Italia car market also remained tonic in March, with registrations up 7.6% year-on-year, and the first quarter of the year up 9.2% year-on-year.
The result is still affected, as the Centro Studi Promotor points out, by the incentives for the purchase of electric cars booked as of 22 October.
The dynamics of incentives actually improved the market share of electric cars, which rose from 5.2% to 12.2% in November, to 11% in December, with an effect also on the first months of 2026, during which the share of electric cars in registrations was 6.6% in January, 7.9% in February and 8.6% in March.
"As the above-mentioned data show, the boost of incentives for the purchase of electric cars is still supporting the car market in Italy, but this boost is fading and it can therefore be assumed that in the coming months there will be a slowdown in registrations, which are however already at very depressed levels.
However, the 484,802 registrations in the first three months of the year represent volumes almost 10 per cent lower than in 2019, the pre-Covid phase.
