Automotive

Portugal’s largest car plant VW Autoeuropa will begin a two-week stoppage from September 1 that could last for an indefinite period because of a lack of parts from a supplier in Slovenia. [...]

Midas Portugal is to open its eighth car repair garage by the end of the year near Viseu. The new garage in Beira Alta is the result of a partnership between the Maintarget Group and Midas and is [...]

Portuguese exports of car components rose by 26.9% in April to €899 million like-for-like on last year with the market growing ten consecutive months. The data was released in a communiqué from [...]

Workers at the VW Autoeuropa plant will know this weekend if the plant based at Palmela has secured the production of a new hybrid Volkswagen. According to an interview with Público, the Managing [...]

The State is to end its subsidies to encourage people to buy electric vehicles, instead choosing to reduce energy costs when recharging car batteries. So far the State has a package of subsidies [...]

Portugal’s hotel sector, which was blamed for tens of thousands of staff leaving it during the Covid-19 pandemic because it paid notoriously bad salaries, increased them by between 15-20% in 2022 [...]

If Portugal is mired in economic crisis with families being squeezed by inflation at nearly 10% and mortgage payments up because of higher interest rates, you’d never guess it if you looked at [...]

Exports of car components totalled €836 million in June, a like-for-like increase of 14.5%. However, the first half of 2022 suffered a 1.8% fall compared to the same period in 2021. According to [...]

The VW Group has boosted investment in Portugal by opening an engineering hub in Lisbon under the remit of VW Group Services. The new Innovation N Engineering Hub is set up in the city’s Bairro [...]

The commercial LGV manufacturer Stellantis Mangulade of Viseu is to produce the fourth model of the Fiat Doblò. From October, the Viseu-based automotive company will produce four makes: Fiat, [...]