The mission of the Automotive industry – one of the most globalised industries – is to provide safe and accessible transportation for the world’s increasing population. The industry is one of the main engines of economic growth, with important multiplier effects both in upstream sectors such as metal processing, chemicals, and textiles, and in downstream sectors like ICT, trade and services. It is also one of the biggest innovators on a global scale, rapidly adopting breakthrough technologies that address the need for more efficient and environmentally-friendly transport solutions.
The Automotive industry involves the manufacturing of bodies, engines, parts and whole vehicles for ground transportation. Such vehicles include motorcycles, cars, light commercial vehicles and heavy commercial vehicles.
Policy support, improving consumer awareness and rising affordability have been fuelling the global electric vehicle (EV) market for more than a decade now. With sales rising in double digits, EVs are gradually eating up into the market share of ...
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Latin America's role in the global automotive sector has diminished in the past ten years. In 2023, the region accounted for 7.6% of the world's production and 5.9% of global sales. Nine out of every ten vehicles manufactured in the region are made ...
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The motor vehicle industry in Latin America continues to recover from the negative effects of the pandemic, but the recovery in 2021 and 2022 (both in output and domestic sales) was insufficient to reach the pre-pandemic volumes reported in 2019 ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic aggravated the fragile situation of the Argentine economy, which experienced its third consecutive year of recession in 2020. In this context, motor vehicle production, domestic sales and export volumes dropped by 18.3%, 25.5% ...
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The continued economic recession in Argentina in 2019 pushed down the production and the sales of motor vehicles by 32.5% y/y and 42.8% y/y, respectively. Moreover, production figures were the lowest since 2004 and sales figures were the ...
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In 2018, Latin America consolidated its position as one of the largest and fastest-growing manufacturing and export hubs for motor vehicles. Amidst the sharp downturn of both production and sales of motor vehicles in Europe, Asia and Oceania, Latin ...
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