Auto lobby urges Spain to speed up vehicle electrification as sales lag
Spain’s auto industry is in dire need of an overhaul to catch up with European peers and speed up its electrification process as automakers struggle to recover from a pandemic-induced slump, the country’s biggest manufacturers’ lobby said.
As elsewhere in Europe, Spanish car production has been hampered in the past few years by semiconductor shortages, temporary factory closures and supply chain bottlenecks after the 2020 global outbreak of the COVID-19 disease.
“We cannot waste any more time,” Wayne Griffiths, the head of the lobbying group ANFAC and chief executive of Volkswagen’s Spanish unit SEAT, said while presenting the group’s roadmap until 2025.
