VW Doubles EV Deliveries in Q3 as New Models Land

• The VW Group has delivered 122,100 battery-electric cars worldwide in the third quarter of 2021, posting a 109% increase over the same period in 2020.

• China has seen the biggest growth over the past nine months, with deliveries being almost 60% higher than in the first half of 2021, but Europe has led when it comes to volume and variety.

• The VW Group currently offers EVs from Audi, Porsche, Skoda, SEAT, and Volkswagen brands worldwide.

Volkswagen has made it clear that it wants to become an EV leader, planning for half of its entire lineup to be battery electric by 2030, and its headway over the past year suggests that rapid progress has been made—despite the stresses of the pandemic and the current industry-wide chip-shortage woes. The Volkswagen Group has revealed it has delivered 122,100 battery-electric cars worldwide in the third quarter of this year, representing a 109% increase over the third quarter of 2020, pushing its total EV lineup share to more than 6%. By comparison, during this period in 2020 the VW Group delivered 58,600 battery-electric models worldwide, with these numbers representing battery-electric models from all VW Group brands including Audi, Porsche, Skoda, SEAT, and Volkswagen.

Europe was still the main market by volume, with 81,700 BEVs finding homes in the third quarter of 2021—almost doubling the group's sales over the same period in 2020. The US saw EV sales from the group double in this quarter over the same period in 2020, with approximately 8800 recorded deliveries across the three group brands: Audi, Porsche, and Volkswagen, with the ID.4 having gone on sale earlier in the spring.