Volkswagen delivered 452,900 fully electric vehicles last year. Their share of total deliveries was 5.1 percent, compared to 2.5 percent in the previous year with 232,000 electric cars, the group said. According to Mercedes-Benz, it delivered 48,936 purely battery-electric passenger cars (BEV) from the Mercedes-EQ brand in the same period, which is 154.8 percent more than in 2020.
Including smart and Mercedes-Benz vans, the company has delivered more than 99,000 BEVs. Since the EQS went on sale in August 2021, 16,370 orders have been received for the all-electric luxury car, announced Mercedes-Benz.
Mercedes-Benz Cars delivered a total of 2.09 million passenger cars in 2021, 5 percent fewer than in 2020. In addition, there were 334,000 commercial vehicles from the Mercedes-Benz Vans division, whose sales increased by 2.6 percent. Accordingly, BEVs account for a 4 percent share of total car and van sales.
Important China
Broken down by individual e-models, Volkswagen delivered 119,600 ID.4, 75,500 ID.3, 49,200 Audi e-tron, 44,700 Škoda Enyaq iV, 41,400 e-up and 41,300 Porsche Taykan in 2021. The largest BEV market for Volkswagen was Europe with 192,000 vehicles, followed by China with 22,100 and the USA with 12,400 vehicles.
Volkswagen had already reported a few days ago that demand for electric cars was increasing in China. Sales by the Volkswagen Group in China, the world’s largest car market, fell by 14 percent last year. With the sale of the electric cars of the ID family, Volkswagen now wants to catch up. For Mercedes-Benz, China was a larger market with 759,000 vehicles delivered than Europe, where the company delivered 696,000 cars.
Delivered worldwide According to Volkswagen itself A total of 8.8 million vehicles were made in 2021, 4.5 percent fewer than in 2020. Of these, 309,500 vehicles were plug-in hybrids, 61 percent more than in 2020.
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