Automotive

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, [...]

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 [...]