In May in Europe (Eu + EFTA countries + United Kingdom) 948,149 cars were registered, 12.5% less than in the same month of 2021. In the five months overall registrations - according to data from ACEA, the association of European manufacturers - there were 4,531,598, down 12.9% on the same period last year.
The Stellantis group sold 191,489 cars in Europe (EU plus EFTA plus UK) in May, 14.6% less than in the same month of 2021. The share is 20.2% (it was 20.7%).
Since the beginning of the year, the group has registered a total of 871,604 cars, with a decrease of 22.2% compared to the same period last year.
The share is 19.2% compared to 21.5% recorded in the five months of 2021.
"While in the highest institutional instances of the European Union we continue to discuss the magnificent and progressive fate of the electric car, no one is able to predict when and how the very serious crisis that has hit the Italian and European car market will be overcome. with the pandemic and with all the other unfortunate events that followed it including, first of all, the lack of essential components for the production of cars ".
This is how the Centro Studi Promotor comments on the data on registrations in May in Europe, which in May recorded a decrease of 34.3% compared to 2019 and in the five months of 34.7%.
"A decline, the latter, about four times stronger than that suffered by the economy in 2020 and already partially recovered in 2021".
The drops - explains the Csp - derive from a generalized negative trend that affects almost all national markets in the area, including those of the five major countries.
In Italy, which is part of the patrol of the big five in the area, in the period January-May, registrations fell by 38.9% compared to January-May 2019. Again in the first five months of the year, compared to the same period in 2019, there are drops of 43.3% in Spain, 35.8% in France and 33.5% in Germany.
In no country is a trend reversal expected.
According to Gian Primo Quagliano, president of the Centro Studi Promotor, "it would be very appropriate that the authorities of Brussels, so attentive to the mobility of the future as well as to the environment,
