\nThursday, 24 July 2025, 20:23<\/p>\n
Vehicle production in Spain continues its downward trend, registering a further 1.5% drop in June, with 215,766 units manufactured, according to data from the Spanish trade association for vehicle manufacturers (Anfac).<\/p>\n
This is the fifth consecutive month of negative growth for the automotive industry in 2025, leading to a cumulative decline of 8.4% in the first half of the year, with a total of 1,220,595 vehicles produced. This means that 111,601 vehicles have been discontinued compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n
This contraction is due to a combination of factors. On the one hand, vehicle demand has declined significantly in the main European markets and export destinations.<\/p>\n
Countries such as Germany (-4.7%), France (-7.9%) and Italy (-3.6%) have experienced significant declines in sales up to June. On the other hand, the Spanish automotive industry itself is immersed in a process of adapting its production lines to manufacture EV electrified vehicles (100% electric and plug-in hybrids), which is affecting production in some manufacturing centres.<\/p>\n
Passenger car production is the hardest hit, with a 2.8% drop in June and a significant 10.1% drop in the first half of the year. Commercial and industrial vehicles, although up 4% in June, also recorded a 1% drop in the half-year total.<\/p>\n
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Share of electrified vehicles manufactured in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n
Anfac<\/p>\n
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Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez-Tafall, Anfac’s director-general, expressed his concern, stating that “if this trend continues, we will lose activity and jobs.”<\/p>\n
L\u00f3pez-Tafall reiterates the need to promote the transition to electric vehicles in both the European and domestic markets, by means of an “appropriate and incentivising regulatory framework and with a pro-vehicle message for European citizens.” He goes on to stress that, in the current scenario of “tariff crises and the entry of new competitors”, Spain needs growing markets and a comprehensive industrial strategy. Anfac insists on the urgency for Spain to have an ‘Auto Plan’ to strengthen the country’s industrial and technological competitiveness.<\/p>\n
Exports<\/p>\n
The decline in vehicle production has had a direct impact on exports of “made in Spain” vehicles, which fell by 1.8% in June and accumulated a 10.8% decline in the first half of the year, with a total of 1,045,269 units shipped abroad. This represents 126,829 fewer vehicles exported than the previous year.<\/p>\n
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Share of production by engine type.<\/p>\n
Anfac<\/p>\n
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Europe continues to be the main destination, accounting for 93.5% of shipments, but its demand has fallen by 10.2%. The main export markets – France, Germany and the United Kingdom – have experienced significant declines of 15%, 12.5% and 7.5% respectively. Only Turkey has increased its demand by 2.2%, becoming the fourth export destination, overtaking Italy.<\/p>\n
Despite the overall decline, the production of EVs (pure electric and plug-in hybrids) is showing a positive trend. In June, they accounted for 9.3% of total production, a 37.6% increase. In the first half of the year, the share of electrified production improved by 1.1 percentage points, making up 9.7% of the total, with 117,767 units manufactured, which is 3.8% more than in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 24 July 2025, 20:23 Vehicle production in Spain continues its downward trend, registering a further 1.5% drop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[28978,2798,15273,2000,299,5187,61802,107767,19755,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-288793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-car","9":"tag-demand","10":"tag-due","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-low","15":"tag-plummets","16":"tag-production","17":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114910102564696979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}