Electric car incentives puzzle: who will be eligible in Ravenna?

Ravenna, October 27, 2025 – A platform has opened in recent days , allowing users to book the new incentives for fully electric cars until June 30 (unless funds run out). Given all the restrictions set out in the decree, in our province, only residents of the municipalities of Ravenna , Alfonsin , Russi , and Bagnacavallo will be eligible, as they are part of the so-called Functional Urban Areas. The projection is for several hundred drivers.

"Typically," commented Adolfo Cosentino De Stefani , former national president of Federauto and owner of De Stefani Group, a dealership for Mercedes, Smart, MG, Renault, Nissan, and Dacia, "incentives are awarded for economic reasons, that is, when the market is depressed and needs a boost. Or for structural reasons. Incentives for electric cars fall into this second category, because they serve the purpose of encouraging vehicle fleets to switch from one type of engine to another. However, structural incentives cannot be intermittent; they must be permanent, until the entire vehicle fleet is switched, otherwise they make no sense."

Funded with nearly €600 million , the government program, called "Renewal of the fleet of private and light commercial vehicles with electric vehicles," provides an incentive for scrapping vehicles up to Euro 5 standards for residents of urban areas with more than 50,000 inhabitants. The incentive is regulated—from €9,000 to €11,000—based on a maximum ISEE of €40,000.

"An incentive that, nationwide, allows the purchase of approximately 39,000 electric cars out of a total of 40 million," De Stefani added, "is just a drop in the ocean. In other words, it's money wasted. Therefore, things are destined to get worse, leading to further depression, because those left out, excluding the 39,000 beneficiaries, certainly won't buy an electric car, but will wait for the next drop in the ocean. And, in the meantime, nothing will change at a structural level."

For microbusinesses (maximum 2 bonuses) for the purchase of zero-emission electric commercial vehicles, the contribution will be equal to 30% of the vehicle's value, with a maximum cap of 20,000 euros.

As mentioned, the new 2025 car incentives will be reserved exclusively for the purchase of fully electric cars belonging to the M1 category and with a list price of up to 42,700 euros, VAT included and without extra accessories.