The current configuration of the used vehicle market continues to be a drag on slowing down the aging of the vehicle fleet in our country. According to data presented by Faconauto in its VII Observatory of the Used Vehicle, the used vehicles that have been transferred this year in the Canary Islands have an average age of 14.4 years.
Regarding the national average age, this is 13.1 years, accentuating a negative trend that we have been dragging since 2020, when this statistic was at 11.7 years.
Behind this bad data is the fact that 57.7% of the used market is starred by models over ten years old. However, models between zero and seven years, served by dealers and professionals, only account for 34.8% of the total.
The employers' association requests a PIVE "without complexes"
This data, according to Faconauto, shows that the used vehicle market is dominated by the private client, who is forced in its majority to acquire that vehicle of more than ten years to solve their mobility.
Therefore, the employers' association has proposed a Efficient Vehicle Incentive Program (PIVE) "without complexes", which includes vehicles up to one year, as well as a plan for "social decarbonization" so that, precisely, the lowest incomes can acquire a vehicle of up to five years in exchange for scrapping a vehicle of more than fifteen.
In this regard, the president of Faconauto, Marta Blázquez, has emphasized that "the function of the used vehicle must be the great lever so that those "sensitive" pockets get out of that wheel of old cars and have the option of also moving with a used one, but not old, but "young" and much more aligned with the common goal of decarbonizing mobility."
