The automotive sector is another one that is being affected by the health crisis, with a drop in registrations of 63.5% until last August in Lanzarote. In total, in the first eight months of the year, 1,615 vehicles have been registered on the island, compared to 4,425 in the same period of the previous year.
The decline had already begun in the first months of this year -before the pandemic-, with year-on-year decreases of 26% in January and February, but that fall skyrocketed when the state of alarm was decreed due to the coronavirus crisis. In March the fall reached 77.4% and in April up to 98.3%, with only eight vehicles registered compared to 458 in the same month of the previous year.
From May, and especially in June and July, registrations began to rise, although at levels far from those of 2019. In July of that year, 1,045 vehicles had been registered on the island and in the same month of this year, 300.
As for last August, the figure fell again both with respect to the previous month and, especially, with respect to 2019. In total there were 198 registrations, compared to 416 in August of the previous year.
Just under half of the registrations last month were made in Arrecife, with 84, while in Teguise there were 29, in San Bartolomé 27, in Yaiza 25, in Tías 18, in Tinajo 9 and in Haría 6.
As for the type of vehicles, the majority were passenger cars (116). They were followed by adaptable mixed vehicles (20), motorcycles (18) and vans (17). Seven trucks, one bus and five SUVs were also registered last month.
Of the 198 vehicles registered in August on the island, 176 were imported and only 22 were of national manufacture.