• Industry. The Government is working on an "aid plan for all types of cars"
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The Executive of Pedro Sánchez returns to rectify and will allow, from Monday morning, the opening to the public of all car dealers, regardless of their surface and the territory in which they are located . This is how the Ministerial Order 414/2020 published this Sunday in the BOE collects and that establishes that they will have to do it by appointment and respecting all the security measures established by the Ministry of Health, something for which they have already invested 11 million euros.

Yesterday, the Government already solved another of the hot potatoes that was on the table, extending the deadline for ITV to pass those cars that have expired during the state of alarm.

Initially, the vast majority of dealerships would not be able to open until phase 2 of the de-escalation, since they have a surface area greater than 400 square meters . With a new car market gone (it fell 70% in March and 97% in April), last Sunday it opened the door for them to start operating, regardless of their size, in those territories that had passed to Phase 1 .

The measure, being necessary, seemed insufficient from the start as it left out regions such as Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia or Malaga. In other words, almost half of the national market, which allowed only 1,300 establishments to start operating; and that, of the 150,000 workers at ERTE, only 42,000 could be disaffected since, in addition, the recovery in sales will gradually take place. In fact, between last Monday the 11th and this Friday, only 1,815 vehicles were registered in our country, according to data from the Autoinforn consultancy. Thus, the market falls 87.1% compared to the same day in May 2019. And 51.3% if we take the accumulated since January.

About 200,000 unsold cars

Faconauto, the management of dealers, and Ganvam , that of sellers and workshops, had repeatedly asked for a return to activity as now authorized. Above all, after it was known that Barcelona or Madrid will continue to be in Phase 0 for at least one more week. Likewise, they have accumulated a stock of about 200,000 new cars and many others used, which has already cost them 92 million due to the depreciation alone, according to Autobiz data collected by Sumauto.

The next step that the sector awaits is the implementation of a purchase aid plan that can accommodate all modern low-emission cars, not only 100% electric (or fuel cell) and plug-in hybrids. . They consider it necessary that it be endowed with some 400 million euros and estimate that, if measures of this type are not implemented, the market could fall to 700,000 units . This would be 45% less than in 2019 and equal the lowest level in 20 years, only comparable to the 2012 figure.

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