ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, recently published a study which was then shared on the social channels through easier to understand graphics, from which we can understand what is the average age of vehicles circulating in Europe (the data resumed date back to 2018).
Many times we have talked about how much the car fleet in circulation in Italy is now really dated and also quite polluting, also for this reason the Government proposes Ecobonus (we have seen the news in recent days), not only to revive the auto sector which, during the coronavirus lockdown, experienced an unprecedented crisis. The goal is also to rejuvenate the car fleet, promoting the purchase of new vehicles that pollute less the air we breathe, which already reaches very high levels of smog, especially in large cities.
But let’s go back to talking about Europe, from what emerges from the study we are considering today, the average of the Old Continent is about 10.8 years for cars, 10.9 years for vans, 12.4 years for trucks and 11.4 for buses. It is clear that the statistics are different according to the country we are considering. If we want to analyze states individually, we can say that in Eastern Europe there are the oldest cars ever, people in fact tend to keep the same vehicle for much longer than in Western countries.
Austria, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom are the countries where the car fleet is youngerLithuania, Estonia and Romania are the countries where we find the cars more dated (16.9, 16.7 and 16.3 years respectively). In Luxembourg the average is 6.4 years, Greece and the Czech Republic have a fleet of 15.7 and 14.8 years. Taking a look at Western countries, we immediately notice that there are abysmal differences between south and north. The averages of France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Sweden are between 8.8 and 9.9 years; Portugal, Spain and Italy instead rose to 12.9, 12.4 and 11.3 years respectively.
An important fact immediately catches the eye: the average per capita income greatly affects the purchase of a new car, in richer countries vehicles can replace us more easily and frequently. However, the situation in Italy has not improved.
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