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No, no. They have announced their INTENT to introduce it .......................in 18 months. The 500e is built in the Mirafiori plant in Turin, and a job-guarantee contract runs out in December. Stellantis also has disastrous sales figures with Jeep, Dodge and Ram in the USA down to very poor quality, a disastrous pricing policy thnking that they could sell everythying at a premium price and belief that everything el;ectric would fly out of the door. Tavares has been loudly proclaiming that brands could disappear if they are not profitable, so it's very hard to believe he could justify subsidising a factory running at 20% of its budgeted output*, but it's equally diffficult to see how he could convince the board to close such an iconic factory - Fiat's HQ.
" Initially scheduled for production of 100,000 units a year, the little electric city car is only expected to reach than an all-time low in 2024. According to forecasts by the Italian trade union FIOM-CGIL, only 20,000 units are expected to roll off the production lines at Stellantis' Mirafiori plant in Turin."
*https://www.italpassion.fr/en/fiat/fiat-500e-production-will-be-historically-low-in-2024/
"Simply" he says !. Perhaps you can simply tell us then how the government will replace the £ 20 Bn+ loss in petrol duy and VAT: that equals 4p on income-tax. I think they would would want to keep the cost in the same sector and simply switch it to EV's: after all , production of ICE has a ban date of 2035 anyway .
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The only thing I'm reasonably confident of, is that there will always be a higher tax burden on ICEs to encourage the transition away from fossil fuels. What form that takes (VED, fuel duty, LEZ and ULEZ charges, pay-per-mile, etc), is anybody's guess, but we probably ought to be grateful to those opposing the introduction of EVs, because the longer they dig their heels in, the longer our tax breaks will last!
