Like many other carmakers, Volkswagen also recorded a year-on-year drop in deliveries. In the case of the German giant, this is an eight percent decrease with almost 4.9 million passenger cars delivered. However, Volkswagen was successful in selling electric cars. The carmaker delivered 369,000 cars with electrified propulsion, which is an increase of more than 70 percent. This trend was also confirmed by Volkswagen’s results for 2021, when it delivered 4.877 million cars, ie less than 5.3 million vehicles delivered in 2020.
extremely demanding conditions of a satisfactory sales result. The huge effects of the semiconductor shortage on production could not be fully compensated during the year. However, our historically highest number of orders for 543,000 vehicles in Europe alone, of which 95,000 for electric vehicles in the ID series, clearly shows that interest in Volkswagen vehicles remains very high, ”said Klaus Zellmer, Member of the Board of Directors responsible for brand sales and marketing
The Golf model, which is followed by its SUV relatives, has become the most popular. They accounted for 40 percent of all cars delivered, while last year it was a 34.8% share. The most popular is this segment in the United States, where SUVs accounted for as much as three-quarters of sales. In addition, in the USA, the carmaker recorded the most significant year-on-year growth in deliveries by 13 percent, and thus managed to deliver almost 530,000 cars, the most cars since 2013.
However, Volkswagen was the most successful in China last year. Although it recorded a year-on-year decline of 14.8 percent, it delivered almost 2.5 million cars to the locals, the most of all the monitored markets. Another place where the carmaker managed to deliver more than a million vehicles was Western Europe, where sales fell by 5.3 percent.
Electric cars are moving
Volkswagen’s plug-in hybrids delivered 106,000 purely electric models last year, 263,000 purely electric models, a year-on-year increase of 97 percent. The total number of 369 thousand electrified models delivered represents approximately 7.5% of all globally delivered cars. In Europe alone, the share of delivered electric vehicles is 19.3 percent, in the home Germany, even one in four cars sold was electrified.
ID.4 can be charged to more than 300 kilometers in half hours
Photo: Volkswagen
In the domestic market, the brand clearly dominates among electric car dealers. In China, where it delivered 77,100 electric cars in 2021, it is one of the five largest suppliers of electric cars, and in the USA it ranks fourth in this ranking. The most popular electric model from the Volkswagen portfolio became the SUV ID.4, which was recently tested for us by financier Radovan Vávra
Similar to Škoda, , which also saw a drop in the number of cars delivered last year
. , Volkswagen also expects that problems in the supply chain will also affect the figures for 2022. Nevertheless, according to the carmaker, the situation should gradually stabilize this year, which should ultimately lead to
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