Green and Sustainable Mobility in Road Transport: How Private Law Can Guarantee the Right Balance between Environmentally Sustainable Development and Digital Transformation.

Sustainable development constitutes a fundamental value that would seem too long mistakenly considered a limit to digital transformation. On the contrary, sustainabil- ity can be understood as a socio-legal challenge characterised by the desire to pursue a common ideal: the protection of the environment in the interest of the present and future generations, guaranteeing a green technological innovation. In the context of the environmental protection in relation to the development of new mobility tech- nologies, e-mobility represents one of the sectors capable of changing the transport- pollution binomial, in particular when it is associated with the development of new technologies, not intended as a limit to environmental protection but as its enhance- ment, representing an evident example of synergy between digitalization, automation and decarbonisation. the paper sets out the analysis of the state of the art in the field of smart e-mobility in road traffic to address the main challenges and opportunities for the automotive sector. It will be demonstrated how an effective framework of private law rules could make road mobility more sustainable, smart and resilient, putting mobility technologies at the service of the human being under a trustworthy and anthropocentric approach.