In April, 20,622 new vehicles were registeredwhich represents an increase of 8.4% compared to the fourth month of 2021, This, according to the license plate information provided by the National Traffic Single Registry (RUNT), and the Fenalco and Andi analysis.
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In the accumulated figure for the year, at the end of April, 78,049 new vehicles had been registered, showing a growth of 2.8%. Apparently it got to them inventory to companies operating in Colombia, which allowed them to increase their sales volume.
(Vehicle transfers fell -8% in March).
The five brands with the highest number of registrations in the fourth month were: Chevrolet, Renault, Toyota, Mazda and Kia with market shares in the order of 17.4%, 16.9%, 10.2%, 8.7% and 7.2%; which represents 60.3% of the total vehicles registered in April
THE LEADERS IN SALES
In the first four months of the year, 8,516 units of clean energy vehicles, between hybrid and electric.
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In fact, the greater availability of 100% electric vehicles has allowed a greater deployment of these machines in the country. At the end of April, 1,339 electric vehicles had been sold in the country with a growth of 262%, exceeding the total sold throughout 2021. In fact, 370 units were placed in the first four months of the previous year.
The sale of new hybrid vehicles at the end of April reached 7,177 units with a growth of 119% compared to the same period in 2021, when 3,278 units had been placed.
Another segment that reports significant growth is cargo vehiclesIn 2022, 4,970 new vehicles were registered with a growth of 21.5% compared to the same period in 2021.
(Insurance, gasoline and tolls drive up fleet costs).
The representatives of the automotive sector through the Andi-Fenalco #En4Ruedas alliance, Juliana Rico, director of Andi’s Chamber of the Automotive Industry, and Eduardo Visbal, vice president of Foreign Trade and Vehicles at Fenalco, highlight the contribution of the automotive sector to employment of the country, since the sector (industry and commerce) represents 1.7% of the national GDP, contributes 6.6% to the industrial GDP and 48% to the GDP of Commerce with more than 45 thousand direct jobs and 330 thousand indirect.
The employment generated by this sector produces multiple linkages, it is highly trained, it is formal and it creates the middle class worldwide.
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