Car sales would close the year at 200,000 units

At the end of the first semester of the year in the country, 90,636 new vehiclesaccording to data from runt and the analysis of the Andy and phenalco. But the projections of the two unions indicate that the year would close with 200,000 new unitsand can even reach the 220,000 units in the full year.

In the first scenario, the most conservative, the fall would be almost a quarter of what was made the previous yearwhen 262,338 units were placed, that is, a drop of 24%.

(Tesla would offer 100% autonomous driving in its cars by 2023.)

The hope for reactivation lies in several factors, the most important being that after five years the International Motor Show in Corferiasan event that will take place next November and that normally manages to double or triple sales in the last two months of the year.

But also the great expectations are based on the fact that the dollar seems to be behaving and its volatility is no longer so high, coupled with that is the fact that the Bank of the Republic it did not continue with the rise in interest rates, with which the rates would begin to take a breather, which makes it possible to finance the costs of the new machines.

(Step by step to pay the vehicle tax).

Another contributing factor is that Everything seems to indicate that inflation in the country has also reached its ceiling and that a slight but sustained decline is beginning.

as explained Eduardo Visbal, Vice President of FenalcoIn addition, there is the fact that they have been working with the Government to reduce the issuance times of the Dynamic Test Certificateswhich reached 120 days and the joint work of industry and Anla has been showing results and it is taking between 60 and 90 days.

(In 2024 Terpel will have six electrical charging hubs for industry).

The goal is to get them back to 20-day levels as was the case until mid-2022, says the Director of the Andi Chamber of Vehicles, Karol García.

Another of the drawbacks faced by the sector and the energy transition in vehicles is that the country adopted a quota system for hybrids and does so at a rate of 3,000 units per year, the quota of this 2023 was exhausted on January 2. For this reason, Andi and Fenalco request that these quotas be eliminated and that these technologies can be freely imported.

(Car sales in the US grew.)

In fact, with these quotas, to achieve the goal of having 600,000 units of clean energy vehicles rolling around the country would take 200 yearsand suddenly at that time the ‘effort’ of the energy transition is no longer so important.

It must be said that the hybrid vehicles that are arriving in the country are of Euro VI technologies, and some Euro Vwhich means that they generate low levels of pollution and, in addition, the combination of two energies makes it even less, well below the levels required by local regulations.

(Of the 2023 fuel deficit, diesel would ‘contribute’ 73%).

Both Karol García and Eduardo Visbal indicated that Work has been done with the Government on the regulations for the arrival of these vehicles and to develop incentives that allow national assembly companies to offer this technology. (hybrid and electric) with which it is expected that a long-term regulation will come out that allows businessmen and consumers to know how the market operates and what can be expected over time.

The unions representing the companies in the sector hope that the regulations will come out soon, since in the first half of this year sales of electric vehicles were seriously affected, they decreased by 11.3%, and only 1,619 units were placed against 1,826. units of the same period of the previous year.

Last year in July they were reported 446 electrical units soldwhich became a record figure for a month, and today it is unlikely to be repeated, with which, at least in July, electric prices will continue to fall compared to the previous year.

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