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A big fall within the variety of petrol and diesel registrations triggered the Italian new-car market to say no once more in February. This was regardless of a powerful enhance in electrified deliveries. Autovista24 journalist Tom Hooker assesses the figures.
New-car volumes in Italy fell by 6.3% final month, with 137,983 registrations. This equated to a lack of 9,219 items 12 months on 12 months, in keeping with the most recent knowledge from trade physique ANFIA. But, February represented the market’s highest registration complete within the nation since June 2024.
‘The general drop in volumes of 6.3% in comparison with February 2024 is a heavy discount that takes us even additional away from the gross sales of 2019. It additionally exhibits that the results of the disaster triggered by COVID-19 and ongoing conflicts haven’t but been utterly overcome,’ commented Marco Pasquetti, Autovista Group’s head of valuations for Italy.
February marked the seventh consecutive month of new-car supply declines. This follows an analogous development seen in a number of the different massive 5 European markets. In February, France suffered its ninth registration drop in 10 months. In the meantime, volumes within the UK and Germany fell for his or her fifth month in succession.
Within the 12 months to this point, deliveries in Italy decreased by 6.1%, with 271,694 items. This represented a spot of 17,527 registrations in comparison with the primary two months of 2024.
Petrol volumes slumped 20.9% in February, with 36,374 deliveries. This equated to a lack of 9,591 items towards 12 months prior, the largest year-on-year unit distinction of any powertrain in February. Excluding petrol from the market’s total determine, it might have grown by 0.4%.
This was the gasoline sort’s seventh month-to-month decline in a row. Regardless of this, the overall was petrol’s highest supply determine since June. It took a 26.4% market share in February, down by 4.8 proportion factors (pp) in comparison with one 12 months in the past.
Throughout the primary two months of 2025, petrol has dropped 19% in comparison with 2024, recording 72,365 registrations. Eradicating the powertrain from the general determine, the market would have fallen by simply 0.3%. It captured 26.6% of complete deliveries, down from 32.2%.
Diesel registrations decreased by 38.9% final month, with 13,705 items. It was the worst performing powertrain in February when it comes to proportion decline. The month accomplished a full 12 months of double-digit drops for the gasoline sort. Diesel fashions accounted for 9.9% of the market, down 4.7pp from February 2024.
Within the 12 months to this point, diesel dropped 38.9%, with 26,550 deliveries. Its share of 9.8% is considerably behind its 15% share recorded within the first two months of final 12 months.
Combining petrol and diesel figures, the interior combustion engine (ICE) market slumped 25.8% in February, recording 50,079 registrations. This represented a lack of 17,386 items 12 months on 12 months. Excluding ICE deliveries from the new-car market, it might have improved by 10.2% in February.
The powertrain grouping made up 36.3% of complete volumes, a drop of 9.5pp in comparison with 12 months in the past. ICE registrations decreased by 36.4% within the 12 months to this point, with 98,915 items. It represented 36.4% of complete deliveries, down from its 45.9% market share throughout the identical interval in 2024.
Battery-electric automobile (BEV) volumes surged 38.2% in February, with 6,922 registrations. The expertise was the best-performing powertrain within the month when it comes to proportion progress.
Its efficiency additionally marked the all-electric expertise’s greatest quantity month since June 2024, when new incentives for brand spanking new fashions have been exhausted simply 9 hours after being carried out. The powertrain took a 5% market share, up 1.6pp 12 months on 12 months.
Because of a powerful enchancment in January, BEV deliveries have risen by 70.9% within the first two months of 2025. The expertise reached 13,624 registrations, marking a rise of 5,654 items 12 months on 12 months.
It captured 5% of complete volumes, an enchancment of two.2pp in comparison with the identical interval in 2024. Nevertheless, this was nonetheless 4.8pp behind the following closest powertrain.
Deliveries of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) grew by 33.3% in February, thanks to six,131 items. This represented the expertise’s greatest month-to-month proportion enhance since September 2023 and its highest supply complete since June 2023.
PHEVs accounted for 4.4% of the new-car market, an enchancment in comparison with its 3.1% share from 12 months in the past. Within the 12 months to this point, registrations for the powertrain rose by 27.6%, with 11,008 items. This gave it a 4.1% share, up 1.1pp 12 months on 12 months. But, PHEVs stay the least standard automotive expertise in Italy.
The way forward for the powertrain within the EU has been in dialogue over the past couple of months. These conversations have been linked to the European Fee’s strategic dialog and motion plan for the automotive trade.
‘To maintain competitiveness and protect jobs, the EU should embrace a diversified portfolio of sustainable applied sciences, together with, by 2035 and past, each plug-in and range-extender hybrid automobiles powered by non-fossil fuels,’ acknowledged ANFIA president Roberto Vavassori.
‘Furthermore, if the Fee’s actual purpose stays decarbonisation, we see no various to a progressive plan to resume the present 12.5-year-old, high-emission automobile fleet. With out this plan, the sector is doomed to vanish underneath the blows of Chinese language competitors and transatlantic politics,’ stated Vavassori.
Including collectively BEV and PHEV figures, electrical automobile (EV) deliveries surged 35.9% final month, due to 13,053 items. Plug-ins made up 9.5% of the general market, up from 6.5% in February 2024.
The powertrain group grew 48.4% throughout the primary two months of 2025, recording 24,632 registrations. This was a acquire of 8,035 items 12 months on 12 months. It took a 9.1% share, an enchancment of three.4pp in comparison with the identical interval in 2024. But, there have been market components that pronounced this sturdy plug-in enhance.
‘Though the market share continues to be low in comparison with different important European markets, PHEV and BEV figures look very promising if we make a year-on-year comparability, as we see a rise of greater than 30%,’ outlined Pasquetti.
‘Nevertheless, it is very important keep in mind that all through the primary half of 2024 we have been going through an anomaly in Italy, for the reason that authorities had introduced an incentive scheme in December 2023 for the acquisition of automobiles with these applied sciences, which was solely carried out in June 2024.
‘This drastically diminished gross sales, which have been considerably decrease within the first 5 months of 2024 in comparison with the identical interval of 2023. Till Could, BEVs have been down 18.7%, whereas PHEVs dropped 25.7%. Subsequently, curiosity in these powertrains is rising, however contemplating final 12 months’s context, I believe it’s nonetheless too early to think about it a growth,’ he highlighted.
Volumes of hybrids, made up of each full and delicate hybrids, noticed deliveries develop by 10.2% in February, with 61,196 items. The expertise represented 44.4% of the market final month, a big enchancment in comparison with its 37.7% share from 12 months beforehand.
Hybrids are comfortably the best-selling powertrain in Italy, forward of petrol. This hole between the 2 powertrains has grown from 6.5pp in February 2024, to 18pp final month. It was additionally forward of the ICE market by 8.1pp in February. One 12 months in the past, this identical hole was reversed, with petrol and diesel fashions main hybrids.
Throughout the primary two months of 2024, hybrids have improved by 10.4%, reaching 120,853 registrations. This equated to a rise of 11,374 items 12 months on 12 months. The powertrain took a 44.5% market share, up 6.6pp in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months.
Combining hybrid figures with the EV market, electrified fashions noticed deliveries rise 14% final month, with 74,249 items. The powertrain grouping captured 53.8% of total registrations, a rise of 9.5% in comparison with February 2024.
The market sat comfortably forward of ICE by 17.5pp. One 12 months prior, petrol and diesel led electrified fashions by 1.5pp.
‘Registration figures present how sterile the continued dispute between those that solely help electrical and people who solely help ICE expertise is. Nearly two-thirds of month-to-month registrations associated to automobiles with varied ranges of electrification, from mild-hybrid and full-hybrid to BEVs and PHEVs,’ defined Vavassori.
‘In the meantime, ICE automobiles with none electrification account for simply over a 3rd, an indication that the method of understanding and acceptance of more and more electrified automobiles can also be happening in our nation. This even if there stays a substantial hole when it comes to volumes, thrice under the European common,’ he continued.
This shift in shopper acceptance follows developments seen in Germany within the UK, the place all electrified powertrains have grown, whereas the ICE market has declined. Within the 12 months to this point, electrified fashions grew by 15.4% in Italy, recording 145,485 deliveries. This gave it a 53.6% share, up 10pp 12 months on 12 months.
The ‘others’ class, together with liquid-petroleum fuel and pure fuel automobiles, dropped 6.4% final month, with 13,655 registrations. It made up 9.9% of total volumes, steady from 12 months in the past. This was 0.4pp forward of the EV market.
Within the first two months of 2025, the class declined 10.1%, recording 27,294 deliveries. This gave it a ten% market share, down 0.5pp in comparison with one 12 months in the past. But, this outcome positioned it 0.2pp forward of diesel and 0.9pp forward of plug-ins.
