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The Volkswagen Group delivered 572,100 all-electric vehicles in 2022.
Compared to 2021, this is a substantial increase of 26%.
The BEV share of total deliveries thus reached 6.9%, up from 5.1% a year earlier. The Volkswagen Group remains the BEV market leader in its home market of Europe and reached the fourth position in this segment in the United States.
Hildegard Wortmann, member of the extended executive committee for sales, said: “Our brands have shown a decent performance regarding deliveries in a very challenging environment last year. I am particularly pleased that our electric transformation gained further traction across the brands and that we reached our target share of around 7 to 8% for all-electric vehicles despite these headwinds.
“The high order bank is a clear proof that customers love our entire strong product portfolio. That gives us confidence for 2023 despite weakening macroeconomics and ongoing supply shortages. The latter are expected to improve step by step in the course of the year.”
In Europe, overall deliveries declined by 10.4% to 3,153,200 vehicles whereas BEVs were up by 13.4% to 352,000 units.
The majority of 2,711,300 vehicles was shipped to Western Europe where the decline was less pronounced with 5.2%. BEVs were in high demand in this region and reached a share of 12.6% of all deliveries (2021: 10.5 percent).
The Group remains market leader in this segment in Europe. The order bank in Western Europe remained high at 1.8 million vehicles – including 310,000 BEVs – due to supply constraints.