‘È stupido’: perché le case automobilistiche occidentali si ritirano dall’elettrico rischia di condannarle all’irrilevanza | Industria automobilistica

>Andy Palmer, a former chief executive of Aston Martin, said: “The worst possible response [from the Europeans] is to blink, slow investment and hope the market somehow resets in their favour. It won’t.”

>The Iran war makes the west’s EV retreat look even more shortsighted. Soaring oil prices have already prompted fresh interest in electric cars after [petrol station prices surged](https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/mar/14/m1-drivers-fuel-prices-us-israel-iran) across Europe. The German car dealer MeinAuto said EV-related online traffic had jumped by 40% since the war broke out.

>Palmer, who also developed the world’s first mass-market EV in the Nissan Leaf and now chairs a battery technology firm, said: “Chinese carmakers have moved early, built real capability in batteries and software, and are scaling fast. If Europe hesitates now, it will hand rivals a structural advantage that becomes harder and harder to reverse.”

Where is exactly the EV retreat ?