Hyundai Ioniq Electric (Image: Hyundai)
First sell yourself electric cars bad, now the manufacturers can not deliver: the electric Smart, the E-Golf or the Hyundai Ioniq Electric are virtually impossible to get. Manufacturers often misjudged demand.
Manufacturers can not keep up with the growing demand for electric cars. Customers have to wait a long time for new vehicles due to bad planning. After Information of the automobile week is about the electric smart practically out of print. The waiting time is up to one year. According to Daimler, Daimler sold more electric smarts within half a year than its predecessors in 2013 and 2014 combined. In 2017, just under 3,000 vehicles were sold in Germany.
Hyundai has delivery problems with the Ioniq Electric. Even there should the waiting time be one year,as the Handelsblatt magazine Edison reports. At Tesla, the Model 3 can not be offered in this country and in the US due to production difficulties in far too small quantities can be offered.
Volkswagen has delivery problems Electric golf, reports that Manager Magazine, The Automobilwoche told Volkswagen that customers would have to wait until the fourth quarter of 2018. However, the production capacity could be increased from 35 to 70 vehicles per day. Renault and BMW, however, have only a few months waiting time for the electric cars Zoe and i3.
Supplement of 8 February 2018, 10:59 am
With 269,429 newly registered passenger cars in January 2018 and an increase of 11.6 percent, there were significantly more new registrations than a year ago. Passenger cars with alternative drive systems posted two to three digit growth rates in January 2018 compared to the same period of the previous year. Electric cars (2,764 units) showed an increase of 108.9 percent. Hybrid vehicles (9,118 units) increased by 95 percent, including plug-in hybrids (2,870) by 87.2 percent.