The Minister of Environment Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, speaking at the Innovation Festival organized by Il Foglio in Venice, strongly reiterated his conviction about the future of the automotive industry. “The electric motor is the engine of the future, there are no doubts”, he explained. According to the minister, the shift towards electric is also a matter of production practicality: it would indeed be easier to build and would require a simpler industrial supply chain compared to internal combustion engines.
The electric motor is the engine of the future
In his speech, Minister Pichetto Fratin linked the technological transition to the reduction of mechanical complexity. “It has seven times fewer components than the internal combustion one“, he said, indicating a concrete advantage in terms of design, assembly, and potentially industrial management costs. This is a step that highlights the need to focus on large-scale feasible solutions without burdening the production chain with too many parts and processes.
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From the industrial dimension, the minister then moves on to the theme of political choices. According to his criticism, it would be an idiocy to try to decide today what a technology should be like many years from now. “The idea that a politician can establish what technology will be like in 2035 is wrong“, he clarified. Pichetto Fratin then stated that this approach would have “demolished” the automotive system, defined as “prince” and linked to the German-Italian supply chains.
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