Spain no longer has time to have an electrified park. This is one of the messages made clear by the President of the Spanish Association of Manufacturers (Anfac),
Wayne Griffithsat the presentation of his roadmap until 2025. The next three years are crucial, said the manager, to prevent our country from becoming irrelevant for European electromobility.
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If electrified cars are not sold in the country, why are we going to produce them? A share of less than 10% between electric cars and plug-in hybrids is insufficient for a ‘hub’ of emission-free production,” he says.
According to association estimates
In 2025, 154,932 cars with a zero label will be sold59% among the 372,000 needed to meet the European Union’s decarbonisation ambitions, as set out in the ‘Fit for 55’ program for 2021.
In the last year,
“Europe is split in two”and markets such as Germany, France and the United Kingdom all surpassed the 20% share of electrified cars. Spain and Italy, with less effective stimulus plans, are in the “tail car”, with 9.2% and 9% penetration respectively. This is shocking with the Portuguese pass, which ended 2022 with an electrified share of 19.3%.
But it is not too late to recover the distances according to Anfac. “Similar measures need only be applied to other countries that have managed to increase sales of electric vehicles in three years,” pointing to Germany as an example to follow.
To this end, the association proposes 12 measures that fall into three broad areas. The first one
support for decarbonisationlike the movements. According to him, it is important to simplify it and to ensure that the amounts do not pass as income support, so that they do not increase the premium bracket “and are more attractive to the buyer”.
The second, with regard to taxes, is not new. Anfac has requested a comprehensive tax reform for the vehicle. However, they assume that 2023 will not have enough time to implement it, as it is an election year. Yes, there is a possibility to apply measures such as a VAT reduction for companies renewing their fleet, but major changes will have to wait until next year.
Finally, the third pillar to ensure a solid market for electrified vehicles is the charging network.
“If we keep up the current pace, we will fail”said Griffiths. According to his calculations, there should be 47,000 public charging points in Spain, but there are only 17,000 and 80% of them are not fast charging.
A highly chargeable Moves plan should be made for the organization, with binding targets for the deployment of infrastructures in time and capacity, as well as creating a system for locating points with real-time information and specifying the agreed measures in the Working Group on Infrastructure for Charging Electric Vehicles (GTIRVE).
Given the popularity of the Electric and Connected Vehicle (VEC), which mobilized only 800 million of the nearly 3,000 it initially mobilized, Griffiths believes an extension of his term to 2026, as proposed by the Industry Secretary,
maro kingsis “insufficient” and that it will not produce a result that differs from the current result.
“It is positive to make the Perte conditions more flexible, and one of the variables that can be changed is time,” said the also president of Seat and Cupra. “2026 is the day after tomorrow in industrial terms and we have never seen such a complicated project.” For this reason, “extending the duration to 2028” would be beneficial for projects omitted from the first call.
Source: La Verdad
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