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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 had been up 6.7%, so you possibly can see that BEV gross sales grew rather more strongly than non-BEV gross sales. (Observe 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 signifies that 8.1% of the model’s gross sales had been BEV gross sales.

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

By way of the place Volkswagen collected essentially the most BEV gross sales (presumably, so as), the corporate’s high markets had been China, Germany, the US, the UK, Sweden, France, Norway, and Belgium. “In Germany, for instance, about 30,000 ID.4 fashions had been delivered (+ 62.9 per cent). Volkswagen’s first absolutely electrical ‘world automobile’ was additionally effectively obtained within the US: about 38,000 examples of the ID.4 had been delivered to prospects right here, which corresponds to a rise of 84.2 per cent in comparison with 2022. The ID.3 all-electric compact automobile was notably fashionable in China: greater than 75,000 had been delivered in 2023 there — a over 200 per cent improve in comparison with the earlier yr.”

I’m excited to see what’s going to return for Volkswagen in 2024 with these fashions, which I assume will proceed to develop in reputation. Nevertheless, Volkswagen will even be bringing extra electrical firepower yr after yr for the following a number of years. Volkswagen notes that the ID.4 and ID.5 simply received new working methods and new drive methods. Moreover, “The brand new ID.7 Tourer, the property model of the all-electric high mannequin ID.7, will even launch this yr.” The ID.7 is a great car. Any new model of it must be great as effectively. I’m desperate to see what it consists of, apart from the mannequin’s progressive anti-dooring tech and different options giving it a 5-star security ranking.

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 completely electrical SUV within the high-volume A-segment.”

Will Volkswagen be capable of attain half 1,000,000 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 get together?

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 numerous large questions on the desk for the German auto large. Provided that Volkswagen is main the pack relating to BEV gross sales from legacy automakers, I, for one, am tremendous excited to see how Volkswagen’s EV transition evolves in 2024 and 2025.