The Urban Mobility Council 2023 - Energy, infrastructure and industries for zero emission mobility

Based on the electronic data detected by the black boxes installed on the vehicles of Unipol customers in the provinces of Rome, Brescia and Bari, it has been found that the E-Private Mobility Index - the percentage of traditional vehicles (with internal combustion engines) that could actually be replaced by electric vehicles - is not uniform throughout the country, being equal to 17% in the province of Rome, 28% in the province of Brescia, 42% in the province of Bari. This discrepancy is the result of a different geographical size, of the different services provided locally and of the population’s driving habits; it is also inversely correlated to the number of km travelled: the E-Private Mobility Index increases as the km travelled by the individual vehicle decreases.

The study measured economic feasibility only after calculating the E-Private Mobility Index, that is, whether the investment for transitioning to an electric car would be cost effective, bearing in mind that the average ownership period of a private car in Italy is eight years. One of the variables that most affects economic feasibility is the recharging cost: in the province of Rome all cars that can be electrified (17% of the E-Private Mobility Index) could be depreciated over a period of 8 years if the recharging cost was €0.2 per KWh (the price before the energy crisis); if the cost increases to €0.36 per KWh (the price after the energy crisis), only 7% of the cars identified would break even in 8 years. These percentages are 7% and 3% for Brescia, 13% and 6% for Bari.

This is what emerged from a study conducted by Politecnico di Milano (the Polytechnic University of Milan) containing an analysis of car trips of Italians recorded through electronic boxes and presented today at the Milan Triennale during the second forum of The Urban Mobility Council, the mobility think tank promoted by the Unipol Group with the endorsement of the European Commission, of the European Parliament Office in Italy, of Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale (AgID, Agency for Digital Italy), of the (Italian) Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, of the (Italian) Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, of the Lombardy Region, and of the Municipality of Milan. The project was created to promote a permanent discussion platform to share ideas, research and case studies among institutional stakeholders, universities and companies engaged every day in building the sustainable mobility of the future: connected, autonomous, integrated and environmentally-friendly.

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