The semiconductor shortage continues to cause problems for Volkswagen.
But with the new electric models, the Wolfsburg apparently hit a nerve.
Wolfsburg - Volkswagen also sold fewer vehicles in September than in the previous year.
The Wolfsburg-based company delivered a total of 626,200 vehicles worldwide - almost a third (32.9 percent) fewer than in the same month of 2020. However, the group emphasized that it is making further progress in the market for e-cars.
Volkswagen: E-car sales will increase by 138 percent this year
According to
manager magazin
, a total of 76,000 Volkswagen e-models were registered in Europe between January and August.
These include the ID.3 and ID.4 models.
If you take the approvals of the two models together, VW has even overtaken the market giant Tesla with its volume model Model 3.
Almost 75,000 of them were sold.
If you then include the eUp small electric car in the Volkswagen bill, the automaker has sold around 100,000 electric cars in Western Europe.
And looking at the global numbers, it looks good too.
The delivery of pure battery vehicles at VW has increased by 138 percent to 293,100 units since January.
Volkswagen: lack of chips leaves deep marks
Despite the good news from the electric car sector, the semiconductor shortage is still causing major problems.
In August, VW posted a group-wide minus of 22.3 percent compared to the same month last year.
The auto industry is currently producing far below its capabilities because microchips are missing everywhere.
Whole shift weeks are canceled.
The result: short-time work.
Half-finished cars are often temporarily stored until they can be retrofitted and delivered.
According to the statistics published on Friday, Europe's largest carmaker is still in the black this year: By the end of the third quarter, customers received almost 7 million cars, an increase of 6.9 percent.
VW: Massive slump in sales in China
The sales problems persisted in all regions of the brands of the VW Group.
The decline was most pronounced in China, the most important market, where deliveries fell by 41.8 percent.
The People's Republic, including Hong Kong, is also the only region in which the group has so far not achieved any growth over the first three quarters compared to the already difficult Corona year 2020.
Western Europe was roughly in line with the overall trend in September at minus 32.3 percent, while North America and the USA came in at minus 11.2 percent.
In addition to the truck manufacturer MAN and the luxury brands Bentley, Lamborghini and Bugatti, all VW group brands saw sales declines in some cases significantly in the past month.
(dpa / ph)