Volkswagen BEV Sales Increase 21.1% in 2023

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Volkswagen continues its stand up the EV revolution ladder. In 2023, Volkswagen’s full electrical car (BEV) gross sales rose 21.1% in comparison with 2022. Total, Volkswagen gross sales have been up 6.7%, so you possibly can see that BEV gross sales grew rather more strongly than non-BEV gross sales. (Be aware that we’re speaking concerning the Volkswagen model right here, not Volkswagen Group.)

In quantity phrases, Volkswagen reached 394,000 BEV gross sales in 2023, in comparison with 4.87 million complete gross sales. That implies that 8.1% of the model’s gross sales have been BEV gross sales.

“The supply figures present that we’re heading in the right direction as a model and that our automobiles are effectively acquired by our clients,” Volkswagen Board Member for Gross sales Imelda Labbé stated.

When it comes to the place Volkswagen collected essentially the most BEV gross sales (presumably, so as), the corporate’s prime markets have been China, Germany, the US, the UK, Sweden, France, Norway, and Belgium. “In Germany, for instance, about 30,000 ID.4 fashions have been delivered (+ 62.9 per cent). Volkswagen’s first totally electrical ‘world automotive’ was additionally effectively acquired within the US: about 38,000 examples of the ID.4 have been delivered to clients right here, which corresponds to a rise of 84.2 per cent in comparison with 2022. The ID.3 all-electric compact automotive was significantly standard in China: greater than 75,000 have been delivered in 2023 there — a over 200 per cent enhance in comparison with the earlier 12 months.”

I’m excited to see what’s going to come back for Volkswagen in 2024 with these fashions, which I assume will proceed to develop in reputation. Nonetheless, Volkswagen can even be bringing extra electrical firepower 12 months after 12 months for the subsequent a number of years. Volkswagen notes that the ID.4 and ID.5 simply bought new working methods and new drive methods. Moreover, “The brand new ID.7 Tourer, the property model of the all-electric prime mannequin ID.7, can even launch this 12 months.” The ID.7 is a wonderful vehicle. Any new model of it needs to be great as effectively. I’m desperate to see what it contains, apart from the model’s innovative anti-dooring tech and other features giving it a 5-star safety rating.

Apparently, Volkswagen is so enthusiastic about one other mannequin, one which doesn’t even come out till 2026, that the corporate highlighted it on the finish of its information launch about 2023 gross sales. That mannequin is “a totally electrical SUV within the high-volume A-segment.”

Will Volkswagen have the ability to attain half one million BEV gross sales in 2024? How a lot will the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, ID.7, and ID.Buzz contribute to gross sales in 2024? Additionally, the place will a smaller ID.2/ID.2all mannequin place when it lastly joins the celebration?

Will BEVs attain 10% of Volkswagen model gross sales, and even get shut to fifteen%? Will Volkswagen brings its BEVs to a number of new markets in South America, Asia, Africa, and elsewhere? There are loads of massive questions on the desk for the German auto large. Provided that Volkswagen is main the pack in terms of BEV gross sales from legacy automakers, I, for one, am tremendous excited to see how Volkswagen’s EV transition evolves in 2024 and 2025.