The Italian van market goes against the trend compared to Europe and records, in the first half of the year, a 4.7% drop in registrations compared to the 1.7% growth recorded in the entire area. Perhaps the waiting effect played by incentives, then actually assigned in just one day at the end of July, is to blame.
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With about 94,000 registrations of light commercial vehicles from January to June, Italy holds a 10% share of the European van market and represents, in size, the fifth commercial market on the continent. Better, in the domestic market, the medium and heavy truck sector held up, aligned instead with the European average. In Europe (EU plus EFTA and UK), in the first half of the year (Anfia processing) the light commercial vehicle market stood at about 928,000 units, up 1.7% compared to 2025, alongside trucks – with a gross vehicle weight over 3,500 kg – increased by 9.3% and heavy vehicles (gross vehicle weight over 16,000 kg), for which the increase in one year was 8.6%.
In this context, Italy is one of the major European markets that in the light vehicle sector recorded a contraction in registrations of 4.7%, alongside France – the first European market, -2.1% in the semester – and Germany, -4.6%. Sales of medium-heavy trucks, +3.9% in the semester, and vehicles over 16,000 kilos, growing by 5.6%, are doing better in Italy.
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A sector, that of commercial vehicles, especially light ones, for which the transition is even more complicated than for cars, with on one side an electric market stuck at low percentages, and on the other the axe of the revision of the EU Regulation on decarbonization which equates the path of vans to that of cars.
However, the fact that incentives on the Italian market – 16 million for electric vehicles, 24 million for registrations regardless of fuel type – were exhausted in less than an hour says a lot about the interest of operators towards low-impact engines, in view of aid, and in general about the push towards fleet renewal.
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