This is how we will have to act in case of breakdown with the new V-16 beacon mandatory in 2026

January 2026. The Three Wise Men of the East have brought a breakdown to your car. You step aside, leave the vehicle, put on your vest and get to work. First, put the emergency triangles. The second thing, notify the insurance and/or emergency services. The third thing, wait for the Civil Guard agent to confirm that we have done everything wrong. And since January 1, 2026, emergency triangles become prohibited. Instead it will be mandatory to have a light V-16a beacon that will serve to alert other drivers from the roof of our car and notify the DGT that we have had a problem. If we do not act correctly, we expose ourselves to more than one fine. How to act with the new V-16 beacons The first thing to be clear about is that the new V-16 beacons do not only replace the emergency triangles. From now on, using the latter will be prohibited and placing them on the road may be punished with a fine of 80 euroswhich is related to not correctly signaling that there is an obstacle on the road. Therefore, before leaving home we will be obliged with the new year to have one of these new devices. What should we know about them? Here we leave you with the most basic but You can check all the requirements in this link: They must appear as approved in the DGT list (that guarantees that it meets the technical requirements) They must have batteries and an active battery Thinking about the future, they cannot be more than 12 years old (minimum time that the data connection must be guaranteed) unless an extension of this period is indicated on the device of the article itself. Once we are sure that we have the correct V-16 beacon, we must keep it in the glove compartment of the car. This is important because if we keep it in the trunk we will have to get out of the vehicle and that is, exactly, one of the reasons that the DGT alleges to activate these new warning lights. Therefore, if we have a breakdown, we must pull over and turn on the emergency lights. Then, we activate the beacon and putting your hand out the window of the car we place it on the roof. Once this is done, we have two options. If there is space to leave the vehicle and go to a safe place off the road surface, we should go there. Always with reflective vests on. If said space does not exist, from 2023 It is mandatory to wait for assistance from inside the vehicle with seat belts fastened. When we activate light V-16, the beacon should activate connectivity and contact the DGT 3.0 platform sending the coordinates of our position, this way it will be instantly verified that there is an incident on the road. This serves to activate the nearby light panels alerting that there is an incident on the road. In addition, connected vehicles traveling on that same road will receive a message in their browsers using the signal V-27 (a red triangle with an exclamation mark inside and three curved lines on the right side as a reminder of “connectivity”). This does not mean that emergency services are activated automatically. Passengers are responsible for notifying the insurance if the car must be towed and the emergency services, such as the Civil Guard, to alert them of what happened and facilitate the removal of the vehicle. Now we just have to wait. Of course, it must be taken into account that approved beacons guarantee emergency light flashing for a minimum of 30 minutes. From there, we will be left without an element that alerts us to our presence, beyond the vehicle’s emergency lights. An obvious solution is to buy a beacon with batteries and replace them when they stop working, but we must remember to carry this element in our car. Photo | Help Flash In Xataka | The V-16 beacon business: who is making money with the elimination of the DGT triangles

Every month that passes, Tesla’s breakdown is greater. And that begins to be a real problem for the company

We begin to have sales data in European countries. The acea data will arrive in the last week of May but, little by little, we are knowing sales in the main European markets. And, once again, the data for Tesla are dramatic. It was expected. It was almost waiting. With each new quarter that begins, Tesla lowers its sales. The company has long followed a registration strategy that leads to enroll a greater number of vehicles in March, June, September and December. Consequently, January, April, July and October, when the quarter begins, pays the consequences with a good hangover. Spain. The data in our country confirms it. In January the brand already gave evident symptoms that something did not march well. Neither the Tesla Model 3 nor the Tesla Moda and sneaked into the 10 best -selling electric cars of our country which gave an idea that the company had cars stored in stock After a final push in 2024 to make up the photo of the year. Now, three months later, Tesla Model 3 loses the first position again. In March he had recovered ground (and is still the best selling car in what we have been) but the Renault 5 and Kia Ev3 They have overcome them again. Right now, Tesla is leaving in our country more than 16% fall. The damage in the case of Tesla Model 3 is lower. It is 9% compared to the accumulated of January-April of 2024 and it is not a bad figure if we take into account that the Tesla Model and is falling 25.46%. The electric SUV was its best selling car and right now it has placed almost half of the units that a model 3 in setback. Still worse. The data They are still worse Out of Spain. Our country does not cease to have a relatively small electric market, so the oscillations are more evident and represented by larger numbers. However, the fall of Tesla in the main markets are striking. In April 2025, the following falls are counted with data from Bloomberg: Sweden: -80.7% Netherlands: -73.8% Portugal: -33% France: -59.4% Germany: -46% United Kingdom: -62% In April, the company only grew in Norway and Italy. In the accumulated of the year, Tesla has fallen 60% in Germany, more than 50% in the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark and the only reason why it barely falls in the United Kingdom is because They could have diverted cars from other markets with a right -hand flyer to the islands. In a very bad time. So far we have been talking about the Tesla Model and Juniper hangover. The electric SUV update has undoubtedly slowed the sales of the new car. Because the production has reduced, there is a stock of the outgoing model to which it has had to leave and because there will be clients who have waited for aesthetic update to buy the most affordable models (it arrived exclusively wearing the most expensive option). The problem is that after a year in which the electric car noticed the first symptoms of wear, Europe has put the direct With this technology. We still have no official data from the entire continent but it is palpable that the number of electric cars in what we have been over is higher than 2024. The electric car market share has gone from 12% to 15.1% in the continent and have registered 412,997 units for 333,428 last year in the first quarter. We are at a growth of 23.9%. The competition squeezes. That means that competition begins to eat ground to Elon Musk’s company. Every day that passes is market share inside the electric car that is being left in Europe. With data from the first quarter of 2024, in Europe Tesla has gone from 2.4% market share of 1.3%. A 45%drop has been left. Volkswagen It has become the Super Survents of electric cars. After many problems with a Volkswagen id His secret has been the sale of the Great Electric Berlina. But, in addition, to these sales we must add those of Skoda, Cupra and Audiwhich improves the general photography of the group. At the same time, Kia Ev3 has entered the market very force And the Renault 5 is being a sales success in these first measures of the year, especially in France. A bump? As we say, it remains to know if what we have in front of Tesla is a bump, if it is going through a bad time that will remain as mere anecdote or if it really begins to have problems to place their cars. The arrival of Tesla Model and Juniper should end these sensations but the doubts begin to emerge. Because although in our test we count that the Electric SUV of Tesla remains a product that is above Of the competition, the truth is that there are more and more alternatives that move in about 30,000 euros and there Tesla is missing. It seems urgent for the company that can put a more affordable electric car on the market. Begins to be urgent. Seen what last numbers presentedfor the company it is urgent to lift the flight. The company has opted in recent months that it would begin to generate money with its autonomous driving systems, either with Robotaxis or with Sales to third parties. A commitment to which they have not taken revenues yet. At the same time, sales figures are not being expected. For the first time, in 2024 Tesla did not sell more cars than the previous year. Start worrying about 2025, just when competition You need to sell more cars electric And we have no 25,000 euros car Not one cheaper version of the current Model 3 or Model Y. The perspectives, of course, are not the best. Photo | Xataka In Xataka | Tesla begins to discover what happens when you lose your competitive advantage: its benefits have collapsed 71%

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