Volkswagen to hit 1m e-cars milestone

delivered 250,000th plug-in e-car

Volkswagen, a German automaker announced that it is accelerating its electric car plans and now targets 1.5 million electric vehicles by 2025. By the end of 2023, it will reach 1m battery-only cars and by 2025 1.5 million.

Since 2013 it has sold 250,000 plug-in electric VW cars. The company celebrates the sale of its 250,000th plug-in electric car. Half of the plug-in car sales were BEVs.

The company in 2018 witnessed the sales of 50,000 in 2018 and in 2019 it sold more than 70,000 plug-ins.

Volkswagen to hit 1m e-cars milestone

The top markets for Volkswagen in 2019 are :

• China
• Norway
• Germany
• the USA
• the United Kingdom

Here are the models which sold the most

• Volkswagen e-Golf: 104,000
• Volkswagen Golf GTE: 51,000
• Volkswagen Passat Variant GTE: 42,000
• Volkswagen e-up!: 21,000
• Other models combined: 32,000

Thomas Ulbrich, Member of the Volkswagen brand Board of Management responsible for E-Mobility, said, “2020 will be a key year for the transformation of Volkswagen. With the market launch of the ID.3 and other attractive models in the ID. family, our electric offensive will also become visible on the roads. Our new overall plan for 1.5 electric cars in 2025 shows that people want climate-friendly individual mobility – and we are making it affordable for millions of people.”

VW ID.3

The Volkswagen (VW) VW ID.3 is the first vehicle which is based on the MEB platform and went for production in September, however, the deliveries have not been planned yet but the company says that it has 37,000 reservations deposits for the vehicle.

The Zwickau factory is being completely transformed for the production of electric vehicles and its other factories are also expected to do the same.

As it is expanding its production capacity, it will need more products of production in that regard it is also working and investing heavily in the battery cell production to achieve the said target.

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