Last year the group sold 3.2 million cars in the People's Republic. The majority of them – around three million – were cars with combustion engines and were in the black.
The electric car market grew by 24 percent, the New Energy Vehicle (NEV) segment, which also includes hybrid drives, even by 38 percent. In the non-electric car segment, Volkswagen even increased its market share from 19 to 20 percent. Volkswagen has massively expanded its production, development and innovation hub in Hefei.