Registrations fall 5.4% in 2022 as a result of car transport issues


Average CO2 emissions are under 120 grams, after falling by 2.3% In December, automobile gross sales in Spain reached a quantity of 73,927 items, 14.1% lower than in the identical month of 2021. sector registers 400,000 fewer registrations than earlier than the pandemic

Registrations of passenger automobiles and SUVs in Spain stood at 813,396 items throughout 2022, which represents a lower of 5.4% in comparison with the figures for 2021 and means falling in need of the forecasts of 830,000 items on the finish of the yr.

According to knowledge from the associations of producers (Anfac), sellers (Faconauto) and sellers (Ganvam), this lower in comparison with the estimates of 830,000 items is defined by the drop in gross sales skilled in December, as a result of transport issues. of automobiles to sellers, which has induced “1000’s of automobiles” to stay stopped in ports and fields, delaying their supply to clients.

In December, automobile gross sales in Spain reached a quantity of 73,927 items, which interprets into a big decline of 14.1% compared with the final month of final yr.

Deliveries to non-public clients closed 2022 with a 1.7% drop, to 366,364 items, whereas in December they contracted 14.7%, to 35,677 items. Companies acquired 348,144 items in 2022, 4.1% extra, being the one channel that grew within the annual calculation, though it dropped 20.5% per thirty days, with 31,969 items. Car rental firms ended final yr with 98,888 passenger automobiles and SUVs bought, which interprets right into a lower of 35.1%. In December, they registered an increase of 54.6%, as much as 6,281 items. Assessment of the information

From Anfac, Faconauto and Ganvam identified that the closing volumes of 2022 had been affected by the difficulties in transporting automobiles to sellers, which has induced 1000’s of automobiles to stay detained in ports and fields.

However, they identified that 2022 was a “difficult” yr for the Spanish market, as a result of components such because the struggle in Ukraine, the rise in power and gasoline prices or the rise in inflation and rates of interest which have conditioned the acquisition determination of the customers.

The director of Communication and Marketing of Anfac, Félix García, defined that these components go away an “unfavorable situation” for 2023, when the assault on the border of 900,000 items ought to be “addressed”.

“Everything will rely on whether or not the battle in Ukraine ends and the logistics chain is normalized in order that extra new automobiles may be delivered. It will even assist so as to add new registrations if the Government accelerates measures to advertise quick charging factors and direct assist for automobiles electrified. With a market under a million items there’s a actual threat of lack of funding and employment,” he stated.

For his half, Faconauto’s Director of Communication, Raúl Morales, indicated that the market couldn’t change its destructive development in 2022, as a result of “persistent bottlenecks within the provide of automobiles, which has significantly conditioned the exercise of sellers”.

“The uncertainty with which we shut 2022 prevents us from envisioning a change for this 2023. We deal with two eventualities: a naked development of 5%, that’s, 870,000 items, to which a further 10% must be added if the bottlenecks are solved in manufacturing, with which we might go to 960,000 items. Neither of the 2 forecasts is sweet information, as a result of we’re very removed from the figures we noticed earlier than the pandemic,” he burdened.

“In this third destructive yr in a row, during which some 400,000 fewer items have been registered than earlier than the pandemic, the shortage of provide has made a dent out there and all the pieces factors to the truth that, though with much less depth, it’ll proceed to take action in 2023, with the danger it entails for employment and the competitiveness of the sector”, highlighted Ganvam’s Director of Communication, Tania Puche.

In addition, he added that, in a context during which the speed of electrification has not but reached cruising pace, refocusing decarbonization methods to cease the getting old of the park lifeless “is changing into a precedence goal for this course that now we have simply completed model new”.

Emissions drop 2.3%

Regarding carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from automobiles registered in Spain in the course of the previous yr, the common determine stood at 119 grams per kilometer traveled, a discount of two.3% in comparison with the information for 2021.

The advance of electrified and various power fashions contributed to this lower in CO2 emissions, which accounted for 40.9% of the annual market, forward of diesel fashions (17.2%), whereas gasoline fashions represented 41.9% of gross sales.

In December, gasoline automobiles reached a market share of 39.9%, whereas diesel fashions reached 16.4% of the market and people with different energies accounted for 43.7% of whole registrations. nationals.

In the yr as an entire, small minivans had been the market section that fell probably the most, with a lower of 49.5%, whereas the best development was for SUVs, with a rise of 35.5%. In December, solely sports activities fashions, with a rise of 8.3%, and premium fashions, with a rise of 8.4%, escaped the overall lower in gross sales.