Algeria expects to produce up to 250,000 vehicles in 2018
- The quotas of imports of new vehicles imposed by the Algerian government have allowed Algeria to acquire recently, in a very short time, a national automobile industry, but whose actors are all foreigners:
§ Renault will produce 60,000 vehicles (Symbol, Sandero) in 2017 and 100,000 in the long term.
§ Hyundai will produce 40,000 vehicles (i20, Santa Fe) in 2017 and 100,000 in future (i10, i20, Accent, Elantra, Santa Fe).
§ Volkswagen is building a factory in Relizane that will start operating in 2018 and targets 50,000 units in 2018 and 100,000 longer term (Polo, Golf, Caddy, Ibiza, Fabia, Octavia).
§ Kia will start producing Picanto then Rio and Cerato (40 000 vehicles planned for 2018 and 75 000 in future)
§ PSA has recently announced that it will start assembling vehicles from 2018 (208, 301, C-Elysee) at the rate of 25,000 units per year and then 100,000 units in future.
§ Suzuki has announced that it will produce 15,000 vehicles (Alto, Swift) in 2018 and 75,000 longer term.
- In this country, which has a motorisation rate of 200 vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants, the manufacturers are aiming for a production of 250,000 vehicles in 2018 and up to 550,000 in the long term (2022-2023). Inovev nuances these objectives (see graph), while noting that the Algerian market reached up to 437,000 units in 2012.
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