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The production of vehicles in Spain continues without recovering its lustre. It is no longer approaching the three million that was dreamed of in 2019, before the outbreak of the health crisis, but accumulating months in decline. 2021 already registered figures 7.5% below 2020, a year in which the plants were closed for two months.
for now, 2022 has not started on the best foot. So far this year, the decrease is 15.2%, with 369,053 units produced. Of these, 290,430 were passenger cars (-15%) and the remaining 78,623, commercial and industrial models, 16.2% less.
According to the director general of the national association of automobile manufacturers (Anfac), José López-Tafall«To the well-known crisis of the semiconductors, the uncertainty provoked by the war in the Ukraine, the increase in the price of raw materials and the cost of energy is added».
Last week, your organization signed, together with other employers of the national industry, a statement in which it denounced the disruptions in its productive operations due to the strike of carriers, which today reaches its ninth day, and requested “an urgent intervention of the Management”.
Tafall also stressed that “the start-up of Perte and the allocation of funds must be as agile as possible to promote the transformation of the industry to electromobility.”
February’s figures are better than those of the first month, given that they yielded 12.9% -January did 17.5%-, until registering 189,145 units. Of these, 152,080 were passenger cars (-9.8%) and 37,065, commercial (-23.4%).
By energy, those with alternative propulsion —which include electric, hybrid and gas— accounted for 22,100 units, slightly increasing their share of national production to 11.7%, despite falling 4.5% in volume.
Of these, practically all were electrified, with 18,551 units, 3.7% more. They were distributed in plug-in hybrids, with 11,991 units (-1.7%) and pure electric, with 6,560 units, which registered a growth of 15.4%.
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