2023-11-14 14:48:37
The Spanish vehicle market continues to be dominated by diesel vehicles, with 55.3% of transfers, followed by gasoline vehicles (37.9%). Hybrids only represent 5.1% of the market and this falls to 1.4% in electrified vehicles. The average age of cars in Spain is now over 14 years, although the city of Madrid stands out as the average age of the car fleet is below 11.4 years. It is also below the European average, with an age of 12 years, and the average age of the vehicle fleet in Madrid is below 11.4 years.
The rest of the Spanish regions have a vehicle fleet with an average age higher than that of Europe and we only find two communities, in addition to Madrid (11.4), with the least old fleet in Spain: Catalonia (13.4 years) and the Valencian Community (13.6), although both exceed the 12 years of the European average.
The autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla along with the communities of the Canary Islands, Extremadura, Galicia, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Asturias and La Rioja have a park that is over 15 years old. The fact that in Castilla y León (64.18%), Extremadura (64.02%) and Galicia (63.58%) stands out, practically two out of every three cars are over ten years old.
The autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla are where we find the oldest cars in Spain, with an average age that rises to 16.3 years in Ceuta and one more in the case of Melilla, which reaches 17.3 years old. half.
FP age chart
According to Madrid Association of Automotive Distributors (AMDA), Madrid manages to lower the average age of the vehicles that circulate on its roads and streets by being the community where the most new vehicles are sold, including electrified ones, in its network of official dealers. These are data that undoubtedly contribute to the rejuvenation of the park, since only 41% of the vehicles in the Madrid region are more than 10 years old and a third are between zero and three years old.
The slowdown in the renewal of the vehicle fleet is also reflected in the current configuration of the used vehicle market, which continues to be a burden in slowing aging. According to data from the Used Vehicle Observatory, the used vehicles that have been transferred this year have an average age of 13.1 years, accentuating the negative trend since 2020 when the average was 11.7 years.
Furthermore, according to data from the DGT, 64.7% of passenger cars older than a decade that still circulate in Spain have the B environmental label and more than 30% do not have it. These vehicles are responsible for practically all of the polluting emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), 91.4%, and 92.7% of particle emissions.
The aging of the Spanish fleet increases fundamentally due to the growth of the second-hand vehicle market. In 2022, 2.3 used cars were sold for every new one and vehicles more than 15 years old represented 40% of sales.
Carlos Bustillo, president of AMDA, emphasizes that “the risk of acquiring a used vehicle with damage increases by 50% when its age exceeds 10 years compared to the range of vehicles between 6 and 8 years old.”
The Madrid Association of Automotive Distributors advocates generating and adopting measures that help renew the Spanish automobile fleet, not only with new vehicles, but also contributing to lowering the average age of the used and second-hand market, “something that is key and fundamental to achieving safe, healthy and sustainable mobility and achieving the goal of zero victims, as required by the SDGs that we have marked in the 2030 agenda,” says Carlos Bustillo, president of AMDA.
Although 57.7% of the used market is made up of models over ten years old, however, models between zero and seven years old, serviced by dealers and professionals, account for 34.8% of the total.
«At AMDA we are committed to the used vehicle to advance the decarbonization of the fleet and we support an aid plan with scrapping so that low incomes can also purchase a vehicle up to five years old. However, we are very aware that the investment that purchasing a new or a few-year-old vehicle represents for the user is not always easy,” argues the president of AMDA.
The data shows that currently the used vehicle market focuses on the profile of a private customer, forced to purchase vehicles that are more than ten years old to meet their mobility needs. “For this reason, at AMDA we support aid proposals that include vehicles up to one year old, as well as a plan so that the lowest incomes can purchase a vehicle up to five years old in exchange for scrapping a vehicle over fifteen years old,” he says. Carlos Bustillo.
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