Overview
- Spain registered 97,082 new cars in February, up 7.5% year over year, bringing the January–February total to 170,186 (+4.6%), with some analyses putting February’s underlying growth near 13.5% after adjusting for last year’s DANA effect.
- Electrified models surged by about 61% in February as plug‑in hybrids expanded around 75% and battery electrics rose 45%, while non‑plug hybrids held the largest share at roughly 40% and diesel fell to about 3–4% of the market.
- Rental fleets led channel gains with a 22.6% jump to 24,968 units, and average new‑car CO2 emissions declined to 102.5 g/km, a 7.1% improvement from a year earlier.
- Sector groups urged the swift publication of Plan Auto+ rules and criticized the repeated rejection of an income‑tax deduction for EV purchases and charging infrastructure.
- Argentina recorded 42,277 new‑vehicle registrations in February (−6% y/y) and 130,229 used‑car transfers (−12.6% y/y), as the Ministry of Justice halted the DNRPA data feed to Siomaa, forcing formal requests for detailed stats and prompting work on a government data center.