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Not entirely surprising, the
Tesla Model 3
sold the most frequently in Germany: The model of the electric car pioneer had 35,262 new registrations in 2021. In the previous year there were only around 15,000.
In the new registration statistics - at least in Germany - the other Tesla models hardly played a role.
While the sedan
Model S
(35) and the equally fully electric SUV
Model Y
(50) found only a few buyers last year, the Model Y had 4,400 new registrations last year.
Photo: MICHAEL REYNOLDS / EPA
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With 30,797 new registrations, the
VW
e-Up
was the second most popular purely electric car sold in Germany in 2021.
After the little electric city runabout had finished seventh in the previous year with 10,839 new registrations, the vehicle made a huge leap forward in the statistics.
Photo: Volkswagen
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With 26,693 new registrations, the fully electric
ID.3
from
Volkswagen
moved up from 4th to 3rd place in the ranking.
Volkswagen's electric car hope has only been on the German market since the second half of 2020 and nevertheless had 14,493 new registrations throughout 2020.
The
VW e-Golf
, which was in second place last year, is no longer available and no longer appears in the statistics of the Federal Motor Transport Authority.
The VW e-Up has also not been available for order for almost a year, but is at the top of the ranking - according to reports, Volkswagen is apparently still processing old orders.
This curiosity is unlikely to be repeated in the next annual statistics.
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The all-electric version of the
Renault Zoe
, on the other hand, has clearly slipped in the favor of e-car buyers in Germany .
While the model apparently benefited disproportionately from the increased environmental bonus in 2020 and was able to more than triple its registration numbers to 30,376 in 2019, the electric Zoe now slipped to 24,736 new registrations in 2021 - 4th place among new registrations of all-electric cars in Germany.
Photo: Renault
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The electric version of Hyundai
's compact SUV
Kona
remains in fifth place
.
17,240 units found a buyer in Germany last year after 14,008 in the previous year.
Hyundai also asked for the fully electric
Ioniq 5
with 6971 newly registered units.
The
Smart Fortwo
(17,409), the newly launched
Skoda Enyaq
(13,026), with the
ID. 4
(12,734), another beacon of hope from Volkswagen and the
Fiat 500e follow in
positions 6 to 10
of the newly registered all-electric cars
(12.516) and the
BMW i3
(12.178).
According to KBA statistics, 355,961 all-electric cars were registered last year, which corresponds to a whopping 83 percent increase.
At the same time, the car market overall fell, with new registrations falling by ten percent to 2.62 million cars, the lowest level since reunification.
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The shift towards electromobility is therefore picking up speed - probably also accelerated by the increased funding of up to 9,000 euros per fully electric vehicle.
More than every tenth
(13.6 percent)
newly registered vehicle was a
purely electric car
in the past year
.
What is emerging with the new fully electric VW models - undoubtedly not entirely surprising - is a duel between Volkswagen and Tesla.
The competition between the best-selling electrical brands in Germany is likely to increase when the first vehicles roll off the assembly line in the Tesla factory in Grünheide this year.
In the future, around 12,000 employees will build up to 500,000 electric cars a year there.
Photo: Patrick Pleul / dpa
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Despite the rapidly increasing demand, it will probably take some time until an electric car displaces a vehicle with a conventional drive from number one in the registration statistics in Germany - at least as long as there is still a lack of sufficient charging stations in the country.
The top position in the registration statistics was once again held by the Volkswagen Group's "bread and butter model": 91,621 times the
Golf
was registered in Germany.
The trend, however, is falling: In the previous year, Volkswagen sold around 136,000 VW Golfs in this country, and in 2019 it was even 204,000.
Photo: Hendrik Schmidt / dpa
