SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Car and light commercial licensing in September had double-digit drops both compared to August and compared to the same month in 2020, impacted by a lack of supply of vehicles, said the association representing dealers, Fenabrave, this Monday.
The situation made the entity review downwards the category’s sales projections for this year, while it expects a normalization to occur from the beginning of next year.
Sales of cars and light commercial vehicles, a segment formed by pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles (SUV) and vans, fell 10.2% in September compared to August and retreated 25.3% over a year earlier, to 155,083 units, according to data from Fenabrave.
With this, the entity decided to revise the projection released in July for sales of cars and light commercial vehicles this year, from a 10.7% increase to a 3.1% growth, to 2.01 million vehicles.
From the beginning of the year until the end of September, sales in the light category totaled 1.47 million units, an increase of 13.2% over the accumulated result for the same period in 2020. In January, expectations pointed to an increase of 15 .8%, according to Fenabrave.
“We are facing many uncertainties and the biggest vehicle supply crisis ever experienced in recent years. This made us reduce growth expectations for the year”, said the president of Fenbrave, Alarico Assumpção Júnior, in a press release.
For months, the global vehicle industry has been dealing with a shortage of chips that are now one of the centerpieces of its products, from entertainment centers to brake management and fuel consumption.
Last week, Taiwan’s Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua, one of the world’s leading chip producing hubs, said Malaysia’s help is needed to address the global semiconductor shortage for the automotive sector
“I believe that, in the first months of 2022, we will have greater clarity about the resolution of the problem”, stated the president of Fenabrave.
The crisis mainly affects light vehicles in the face of higher sales volumes than trucks, which had an estimate revised upwards by Fenabrave from a high of 30.5% to growth of 43.1%, to 89.2 thousand units.
In September, sales of new trucks in Brazil retreated 8.6% compared to August, but rose 56.6% year-on-year, to 11,600 units.
Already the projection of license plates of buses went from high of 10.6% to growth of 1.1%, to 18.2 thousand units, said Fenabrave. Sales in the category last month totaled 1,16 thousand buses, drops of 28.4% compared to August and 24.3% compared to September 2020.
According to Fenabrave, the transport companies operating in the bus sector are “on hold”, being cautious about their fleet investment decisions. “This year, it is the segment with the lowest growth compared to 2020, but it is even understandable, due to the pandemic and circulation restrictions, which were in force in the first half of 2021”, said the president of the entity.
(By Alberto Alerigi Jr.)
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