√Volkswagen ID electric cars pass half-a-million sales worldwide
German car giant Volkswagen has sold more than half-a-million new-generation ID electric cars since late 2019 – with approximately 135,000 orders yet to be processed.
Volkswagen has clocked up more than 500,000 global sales of its new-generation ID electric cars since 2019, but the German car giant still lags behind battery-powered pioneer Tesla.
In 2019, Volkswagen’s ID electric-car model range was launched with the debut of the ID.3 hatchback, and has since expanded to include the ID.4 SUV (2020), ID.5 SUV (2021), and the China-only ID.6 SUV (2021).
In a media statement, Volkswagen’s global sales boss, Imelda Labbé, announced the car giant still has approximately 135,000 orders to fulfil amid supply constraints, which includes the upcoming ID. Buzz electric van.
“We are doing our utmost to deliver the roughly 135,000 ID.s on order to our customers as quickly as possible,” Ms Labbé said in a media statement.
“However, due to the persistently strained situation as regards the supply of parts we are repeatedly having to adjust production.”
Volkswagen Australia recently confirmed its plans to bring the ID.4 and ID.5 to local showrooms next year, more than two years after the ID.4 was launched overseas.
Volkswagen produced electric cars before the ID model range launched in 2019, although none were available in Australia.
In December 2013, Volkswagen launched the e-Up in Europe, going on to sell more than 21,000 examples of its electric city car before production ended in early 2020.
In February 2014, the e-Up was followed by the e-Golf, an electric variant of Volkswagen’s seventh-generation best-selling hatchback.
While the 100,000th Volkswagen e-Golf was built in November 2019, the car giant discontinued the battery-powered model at the end of 2020, ending a production run of 145,561 vehicles.
With the introduction of the ID model range, Volkswagen’s electric car sales increased almost six-fold from 2019 to 2021, from 45,000 examples reported as sold in 2019, to 134,000 cars in 2020 and 263,000 examples last year.
Despite the increasing production and sales of its battery-powered cars, US auto giant Tesla has sold almost six-and-a-half times as many electric vehicles as Volkswagen’s ID range.
From 2012 until the end of September 2022, Tesla sold more than 3.2 million electric cars globally – having eclipsed 500,000 sales in late 2018.
Tesla is on track to sell more than one million electric cars in a calendar year for the first time in 2022 – after delivering 908,573 vehicles between January and September.
In September this year, the Tesla Model Y was the best-selling new car in Europe, beating the petrol and diesel-powered Volkswagen Golf across the continent and in its home market, Germany.
While Chinese car-maker BYD claims it is the world’s biggest producer of electric cars by volume, the company includes petrol-electric plug-in hybrids and range-extender electric cars in its sales data.
In October, Volkswagen announced it would be going electric-only in Europe by 2033, with petrol and diesel power expected to remain in the US, China and Australia well into the next decade.
By 2026, the German car giant is due to launch an additional 10 electric cars – including a small car (reportedly named ID.2), a sporty SUV, an SUV off-shoot of the ID.3 and the Passat-sized ID. Aero sedan.
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