Significantly fewer new commercial vehicles were registered in the European Union in January than in the same month last year. This is reported by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA). The slump in sales may be related to the ongoing chip shortage.
In January 125,292 new commercial vehicles were registered in the European Union. If you park them all in a row, that would result in a row of more than 500 kilometers, but it is no less than 11.1 percent fewer than were registered in January 2021.
In the Netherlands, 6,998 new company cars were registered in January, 16.4 percent less than in the same month last year. The largest percentage decrease in company car sales was observed in Austria (-36.4 percent). The larger markets are also showing major declines. For example, the number of newly registered commercial vehicles decreased by 20.1 percent in Spain and by 17 percent in France. If we look specifically at the figures for delivery vans (up to 3.5 tons), we observe a registration decrease of no less than 14.2 percent in January in the European Union. In total, 99,461 buyers were registered in January. In the Netherlands, this concerns 5,505 copies, more than 21 percent less than a year earlier.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl