VW Group Accounted For 25% Of All New EV Gross sales In Europe Final Month

The Volkswagen Group led the pack in electrical car registrations in Europe final month, with fashions from its many manufacturers accounting for a full quarter of all EV gross sales. The automaker led opponents like Stellantis, BMW, and even Tesla.

In complete, Volkswagen Group manufacturers like Audi, Porsche, Škoda, Cupra, and, after all, VW, bought 29,996 electrical automobiles throughout Europe in October 2022. The Volkswagen model was the gross sales chief inside the group, in addition to within the wider market, with the model’s gross sales accounting for 12.7 p.c of all new EVs bought in October, in line with knowledge gathered by Jato.

The Volkswagen Group was adopted by Stellantis, with 19,291 EVs in October, and the BMW Group, which bought 11,788 EVs throughout the identical interval. Tesla, in the meantime, lagged behind its competitors. It wound up in eighth place after registering 5,792 new automobiles—placing it simply behind Mercedes and simply forward of China’s SAIC.

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The 2 automobiles that fared the perfect, by way of gross sales, had been the VW ID.4 (6,069 gross sales) and the ID.3 (5,409). They had been adopted by the Fiat 500e (5,168), the Peugeot e-208 (4,839), and the Renault Megane E-Tech (4,551). No Tesla car made the highest 10.

All in, automakers managed to promote 119,600 new electrical automobiles in October and 88,200 plug-in hybrids, up 15 and 13 p.c, respectively over the identical interval in 2021. Up to now this yr, Europeans have purchased a complete of 1,103,055 million EVs, a rise of 24 p.c over final yr.

These figures had been buoyed by a robust general market. Throughout all car sorts, Europeans purchased 14 p.c extra automobiles in October 2022 than they did in October 2021, when automakers had been fighting the worst of the semiconductor scarcity.

That robust general market means, nevertheless, that though electrical car gross sales are growing, their gross sales have been matched by different varieties of automobiles. In consequence, EVs management 23 p.c of the broader European automotive market, the identical proportion they managed in October 2021.