Vehicle sales in Romania will end 2024 up by 1.7% as compared to last year, for cars and 0.6% for light commercial vehicles, shows a PwC Autofacts report conducted in five Central European markets.The markets analysed in this report are Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. Despite a 10.2% drop in car sales in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, this is the second consecutive quarter in which the 30,000 unit sales threshold has been exceeded, Autofacts shows. Dacia remains the best-selling brand. Tesla doubled its sales in the same period and climbed 11 places to enter the top 10. The first quarter of this year was very, very good for the car production in Romania, which increased by 7%, registering the second quarter of growth in a row. For the whole year, the production is expected to grow by 8.5%, determined by LCV. In the case of cars, the production is estimated to drop by 7.1%. At the level of the five states analysed, the cumulated sales would increase by 4.6% this year, all markets having a positive trend, Hungary having the highest leap, 8.7% against 2023. In exchange, the production of light vehicles on these markets will drop by 0.8% in 2024 against 2023. The evolution will be the result of the reduction by 4% of the car sector, despite the estimated increase of the light commercial vehicles market (+35%). At the level of the country, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the biggest production markets out of the five, will have production levels dropping by 1.6% and 3.5% respectively. The production of electrical vehicles in the analysed countries in Central Europe continues to grow, estimated at more than 15.6% in 2024 against 2023, while until 2030 a huge advancement is expected of 208.4%. In 2024, the BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) performance is expected to be weaker (-2.3%) while PHEV (Plug-in-Hybrid -+24% and FHEV – Full Hybrid - +27.9% compensates for the loss. At the country level, BEV will continue to be the most popular type of electrified series-production powertrain for four of the five markets (except Romania) from 2027. In Romania, there will be produced especially FHEV (full hybrid).
“Little London” Theoretical High School, a private educational institution in Romania that values the Romanian educational system, has started construction work for the expansion of its school campus located in Voluntari, on Erou Iancu Nicolae Street. This initiative will increase high school capacity by 30% starting from the 2025-2026 academic year. In this context, the […]
British heavy metal band Iron Maiden will perform at Bucharest’s National Arena on May 28, 2026, as part of their “Run For Your Lives” anniversary world tour, promoter Emagic announced on Thursday, September 18. The concert will feature a career-spanning setlist highlighting defining moments from the group’s five-decade history, accompanied by what organizers described as […]
Three-quarters of Romanians believe that the war in Ukraine affects Romania to a very great and fairly great extent, according to the third edition of the Informat.ro barometer by INSCOP Research, carried out between September 1 and 9. The monthly survey, which aims to bring to public attention topics of interest, shows that “opinions are […]
Daniela Schoppmeyer, the majority shareholder and general manager of Faberrom, a company that took over in the 1990s most of the spaces of the former APACA clothing factory in western Bucharest, is the new owner of half of the emblematic Scala residential block, on Magheru Boulevard, Profit.ro reported. Schoppmeyer...
The Bucharest Municipal Parking Company (CMPB) inaugurated 189 new parking facilities with more than 12,400 spaces in the first half of 2025, while revenues from parking fees rose 20% year-on-year to RON 50.4 million (roughly EUR 10 million), the company said on Thursday, September 18. CMPB reported a net profit of RON 28.3 million for January–June […]
Romania has inaugurated underwater seagrass meadows and artificial reefs in the Black Sea as part of a major restoration project aimed at curbing erosion and reviving marine biodiversity, the National Administration “Apele Române” said. More than 20 hectares of seabed have already been planted with Zostera noltii seagrass and transplanted with Cystoseira barbata seaweed, creating […]
