The United Automobile Importers Group (known as GUIA for its initials in Spanish), raised a red flag Thursday over the unstoppable slide Puerto Rico’s auto sales have gone into over the past five months, a trend upheld in June, when activity was down 15.8 percent.
The United Automobile Importers Group (known as GUIA for its initials in Spanish) confirmed Monday that the downward spiral that Puerto Rico’s car industry has been on this year continued in May, when sales were down 6.7 percent year-over-year.
A major hurdle to marketing electric vehicles in Puerto Rico has been the absence of a network of charging stations, but a cooperative agreement between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and Nissan Motor Co. signed Wednesday now paves the way for the introduction later this year of the first electric car: the Nissan Leaf.
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