Electric car production at VW in Zwickau
If you only look at vehicles with electric drives, the brands of the world’s second-largest car company managed to increase sales by a good 26 percent to over 572,000 vehicles compared to the previous year.
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The Volkswagen Group sold significantly fewer vehicles overall in the past year due to delivery problems with car electronics and the corresponding production problems. At the same time, sales of electric models improved significantly.
As the Wolfsburg-based company announced on Thursday, worldwide deliveries in 2022 fell by seven percent compared to the previous year to almost 8.26 million units. All in all, the only growth region was Asia-Pacific, if you exclude the most important market there, China.
In the course of the year, however, business stabilized noticeably again – in the individual month of December, for example, there was a global increase in sales of 18.1 percent in the sales statistics, with growth of almost 23 percent in China and almost 18 percent in Western Europe. The lack of chips and the economic consequences of the corona restrictions in the People’s Republic had recently relaxed somewhat.
If you only look at vehicles with electric drive, the overall picture looks more positive: Here, the brands of the world’s second-largest car company managed to increase sales by a good 26 percent to over 572,000 vehicles compared to the previous year. The Volkswagen Group explained that 6.9 percent of all vehicles delivered were pure electric vehicles – 1.8 percentage points more than in 2021.
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