Automotive

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, [...]

Autoeuropa is to beef up production of its SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle) the Volkswagen Sharan but will reduce its production of T.Roc model. According to ECO online, the increase in production is [...]

Volkswagen is to invest just over €500 million at its car plant Autoeuropa in Palmela over the next five years. The announcement was made by one of the German firm’s directors at a ceremony [...]

The Portuguese group Simoldes is to invest €27 million in a new factory in Zory in Poland in what will be the 24th factory for the largest European manufacturer of steel molds for plastics. [...]

Car sales are starting to recover but continue to fall short of pre-pandemic levels. Sales of cars rose 25.6% in the first half of 2021, with some brands displaying two-digit growth. But in the [...]

Portugal has made it onto the Top 10 list of the most attractive countries for overseas investment. This is according to the EY Attractiveness Survey Portugal 2021 which reveals that 37% of those [...]

Portugal’s automative sector saw exports plummet by 21% in 2020 compared to 2019 because of the general shutdown in production at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. For those companies that [...]

Portugal’s largest car plant achieved, for the second consecutive year, both a production and turnover record in 2019, generating 1,7% of national GDP. The information was published when the [...]