During the first 10 months of 2021,
1,757,280 vehicles
were manufactured in Spain
, which translates into a
2.5% drop compared to factory production between January and October 2020
, the year of maximum incidence of the pandemic.
The comparison with the same period of 2019 shows a 26.7% collapse.
October has been the worst month by far
, reports the Anfac manufacturers 'employers' association, since the 165,003 units that left the Spanish assembly lines represented a
37.9% reversal
compared to the tenth month of 2020.
But
it can be even worse
.
According to Anfac, the ground may not have been reached, because
the end of the crisis due to the shortage of microchips and the increased cost and difficulties in supplying raw materials is no longer calculated at the beginning or mid-2022, but even until "the beginning of 2023"
.
This would mean another year of scarcity, lack of demand and the closure of production lines.
And not only in Spain, but throughout Europe.
Europe in a tailspin
Because European markets, which are the main recipients of vehicles manufactured in Spain, also continue to
decline
in
France (-30.7%), Germany (-34.9%), Italy (-35.7%) and the United Kingdom. United (-24.6%), all below the 2020 figures
and let alone those of 2019. The Spanish market, which accounts for 25% of the sales of cars manufactured in the country, fell by 20.5%
The type of vehicle that fell the most in October was
passenger cars and SUVs, with a 41.1% decline
, followed by commercial and industrial
vehicles, which fell
24.5%.
Anfac has 111,829 passenger cars and SUVs manufactured and 30,894 commercial and industrial vehicles.
In 2020 there were also 24.3% more zero- or low-emission vehicles than in 2021. In total,
20,597 units
of electric cars, plug-in hybrids, conventional hybrids, natural gas and LPG
have been manufactured
.
However,
the production share of these alternative vehicles has risen to 12.5% of the total.
Three-quarters of them are electrified.
Exports
In the month of October, exports have registered a
sharp fall of -38.2% compared to the same month of the previous year
, to a
total of 142,723 units exported
.
Until the tenth month of the year
, a
total of 1,523,745 units
have been sent outside our borders
, which already represents a
decrease of -1.6% compared to what was obtained in 2020
, a year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic .
The
production shutdowns
also affect exports, because you can not cover the
entire global demand, regardless of
the lack of demand in the European market, the strongest (65%)
.
Destinations to the Old Continent fell by 45.2% in October and
only Turkey maintains its pace of demand, which grew by 271%
in October compared to the same month of 2020.
To top it off, the
rebound in Covid-19 cases is further strangling demand in Central Europe
.
In France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy, exports have fallen by more than 40%
Morocco (+ 50.1%), South Africa (+ 28%),
Chile (+ 327.5%)
, Japan (+ 90%) and Australia (+ 180.8%) give the best news on the export of Spanish vehicles , although the figures drop considerably in
Mexico (-76.2%)
.
By continents,
Australia (+ 163.2%), Asia (+ 50%) and Africa (+ 0.5%) grew
.
In America the drop is 6.1% despite the Chilean growth spurt.
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