2024 ended with a slight growth for the Italian market of commercial vehicles: +1.1%, thanks to 198,630 registrations, just over the 196,551 units of 2023 (+5.3% on 2019). It was a two-speed year, with strong growth in the first seven months (+15.4%, over 17,200 units more than in 2023) and a rapid decline in the last five (-17.8%, with a loss of over 15,100 units).
On the engine front, Only the diesel was fine. Unlike what is happening in the car market, where this supply is continuing to lose ground, in the commercial vehicle market it has gained 3.3 points of share and has risen to83.7% of the market.
How the market moved
In December, the market marked the fifth consecutive decline of the year, equal to -13.7%, with 15,300 registrations compared to 17,722 in the same month of 2023. In the year petrol vehicles they lost half a point and stopped at 3.8%; those powered by LPG dropped to 2.7% (-0.4 pp) and those powered by methane stopped at 0.1% of the total.
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Plug-in vehicles stopped at 0.2% share and hybrid ones at 7.5%, while BEVs fell to 1.9%, despite an improvement in December (when pure electrics have reached a share of 2.7%).
| Diet | Unit 2024 | Unit 2023 | Our. % | Quota 2024 |
| Diesel | 166.294 | 158.002 | +5,2% | 83,7% |
| Hybrids | 14.943 | 16.425 | -9% | 7,5% |
| Gas | 7.561 | 8.406 | -10,1% | 3,8% |
| GPL | 5.446 | 6.127 | -11,1% | 2,7% |
| Electrical | 3.835 | 6.142 | -37,6% | 1,9% |
| Methane | 119 | 342 | -65,2% | 0,1% |
Finally, the market structure tells us that the private share remained almost stable (15.1%), losing 0.2 points as also happened to long-term rental, which fell to 31.2% of the total market. The short term rental remained at 5.9% share, entities and companies maintained first position and, with growth above the market, gained 0.7 share points (40.4%).
UNRAE estimates
UNRAE estimates for 2025 a market contraction of 4% compared to 2024, with 190,000 registrations.
“In the Budget Law, 200 million euros have been provided for each of the two years 2026 and 2027 for the refinancing of the Automotive fund
– said Michele Crisci, President of UNRAE -.
It is hoped that these resources will be allocated to a structured incentive plan, to be activated as early as 2025, to support the transition towards sustainable mobility.
President Crisci was then keen to underline that, as highlighted in the Report on Competitiveness presented by Mario Draghi to the European Commission and reiterated by ACEA and other Associations”.
“It is necessary to accelerate the spread of one adequate charging networkcurrently insufficient at European level. In this direction, we believe it is crucial to introduce a 50% tax credit for private investments in fast charging infrastructure (over 70 kW) in the three-year period 2025-2027. These interventions are essential to stimulate demand and support the entire sector.”
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Source: it.motor1.com
