When it comes to new electric registrations in Germany, Volkswagen is right at the forefront.
But other German car brands can also hold their own in the home market for electric vehicles.
Flensburg - The German car brands also dominate their home market for electric vehicles.
In the new registrations of pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in the first half of the year, they 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 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 market share - and thus slightly less than the share of Wolfsburg in the overall market. It is followed by Mercedes-Benz with 33,918 and BMW with 28,663 vehicles, followed by Audi with 24,569. Their shares in the electrified market are each slightly higher than in the overall market. Unlike Volkswagen, in which pure electric vehicles dominate, 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. dpa