Volkswagen Sold 383,100 Fully Electric Vehicles in 2024

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Volkswagen launched worldwide gross sales information in the present day. An honest portion of the information launch, which admittedly was not very lengthy, was concerning the model’s EV enterprise.

The corporate famous that it has delivered round 500,000 units of the ID.3 because it was launched, a big event I recall Steve Hanley attended for CleanTechnica in Wolfsburg, Germany, in November 2019. I assume “around 500,000 units” should imply a bit lower than 500,00 models. Half 1,000,000 gross sales in roughly 5 years averages out to about 100,000 a 12 months. It’s higher than the overwhelming majority of EV fashions have achieved, however I’ve to say that I anticipated extra from the mannequin in 2019. That is presupposed to be a very mass-market EV from one of many largest auto manufacturers on the earth. Alright, it’s doing okay, which is why Volkswagen highlighted the mannequin in this-end-of-year gross sales announcement. However all of us need extra, proper?

Overally, Volkswagen offered 4.8 million autos in 2024. Since 2019 when the ID. household was launched, Volkswagen has offered 1.35 million ID. models.

Throughout all totally electrical automobile fashions, Volkswagen reached 383,100 gross sales in 2024. On the one hand, discover me a legacy automaker doing higher. However, that’s a small fraction of what BYD and Tesla are doingand it’s barely greater than a number of Chinese language EV startups (NIO, XPENGand Zeekrto call a number of).

Is Volkswagen doing properly with regards to electrification of its fleet? Or has the corporate dropped the ball? What’s your take? I can truthfully say I’m a bit torn on the matter, given all of the challenges and difficulties for a giant legacy automaker making an attempt to transition to an electrical automobile period.