2022 is once again a fateful year for car sales, mainly due to the shortage of materials and long waiting times for deliveries, but the second-hand market is not spared either: 916,438 second-hand cars have been sold in the first six months hand, which represents a drop of 4.5%.
In this way, the ratio is established in that for each new car 2.2 used have been sold.
With regard to energy sources, used diesel cars accounted for 58.8% of operations during the period, which represents a drop of 6.6%, while gasoline, which accounted for 36% of sales, have accused a fall of 5%.
Electric cars are still token, as they have only accounted for 0.7% of the market (6,328 units), but this implies a growth of 44.6% until June.
As for plug-in hybrids, those based on a diesel engine have sold 1,007 units, experiencing growth of 109.8%. For their part, those that use a gasoline engine have grown, but in a more restrained way: 33.3% to reach 6,317 copies.
By channels, companies, rental companies and renting have not been able to renew their fleets due to the low availability of new cars, so the second-hand operations derived from them have fallen by 29.9%, 22.6% and 13.1% ,
Raúl Morales, Director of Communications at FACONAUTO, has declared: “the data for the first half of the year show that the crisis that the automotive industry is facing extends to the second-hand vehicle market due to the same factors: lack of stock at points of sale and the economic uncertainty felt by families”
And he points out that “these factors are also influencing the supply of young vehicles from 1 to 3 years, a segment that is the one that has fallen the most so far this year, with a 37% drop. The channels from which this market is supplied are not generating stock, preventing demand from being met and forcing professionals to import vehicles from third countries”.
