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Stromer victory for VW:
The Wolfsburg-based core brand sold the most battery electric cars (VW ID.4 in the picture) and plug-in hybrids in Germany in the first half of the year.
Photo: Matthias Rietschel / REUTERS
For new registrations of pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in the first half of the year, German car brands occupy places one to four, as an evaluation of current figures from the Federal Motor Transport Authority shows.
Only in fifth place followed a French car brand with Renault.
Volkswagen is the undisputed number one with 59,127 new electric registrations in the first half of the year.
That is almost 19 percent of the market share for battery electric cars and plug-in hybrids - and thus slightly less than the share of Wolfsburg in the overall market.
However, the VW brand continues to sell significantly more cars with gasoline or diesel engines: VW had a total of 276,486 new registrations from January to June 2021.
Pure electric cars and plug-in hybrids made up 21.3 percent of all new VW registrations in the first half of the year.
This is followed by Mercedes-Benz with 33,918 pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in the first half of the year.
BMW came with 28,663 such vehicles ahead of Audi with 24,569 new electric car registrations.
Their shares in the electrified market are each slightly higher than in the overall market.
Unlike Volkswagen, in which pure electric vehicles dominate (35,923 electric vehicles, 23,204 plug-in hybrids in the first half of the year), the majority of the three competitions are due to plug-in hybrids.
If you only consider battery-powered pure electric cars, VW is clearly ahead of Tesla with 13,768 and Smart with 12,252 with 35,923.
When it comes to plug-in hybrids, Mercedes-Benz leads with 29,882, ahead of VW with 23,204 and BMW with 22,011.
In total, a good 312,000 pure electric cars and plug-in hybrids were newly registered in Germany in the first half of the year.
That was every fourth to fifth car.
wed / dpa-afx