E-mobility: electric cars celebrate triumph in Germany

Created: 01/17/2022, 02:39 p.m

Car manufacturers are now increasingly focusing on e-mobility.

The growing market share shows how right this development is.

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E-cars are also becoming increasingly popular in Germany.

The market share has almost doubled in the past year.

Frankfurt - The market share of cars with batteries in the drive has roughly doubled in Germany over the past year.

According to data from the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), 26 percent of the 2.6 million newly registered cars were purely electric or in combination with a combustion engine.

That was almost 93 percent more than in the previous year, as the KBA announced on Monday.

The market share of pure electric cars with battery-electric drives (BEV) doubled to 13.6 percent.

Demand is boosted by government incentives and meets a growing range of models.

Audi had the largest share of new electric cars

Of the German brands, Audi* had the highest share of new vehicles in its total domestic sales with alternative drives, at 70 percent.

According to the KBA statistics, this category includes BEVs, hybrids with and without an external charging plug, fuel cells, gas and hydrogen.

At BMW, more than every second car was electrified (56.5 percent), at Mercedes-Benz it was 45.4 percent, at volume manufacturer Volkswagen almost a quarter and at Stellantis subsidiary Opel 14.6 percent.

Plug-in hybrids more popular than pure electric cars

All German manufacturers sold far more plug-in hybrids than BEVs.

From January to November, the BEV quota from Volkswagen* was 14 percent of the total German sales of the VW brand.

The premium manufacturers sold even fewer pure electric vehicles: Audi had 7.5 percent, BMW 6.8 percent and Mercedes-Benz only 5.2 percent.

Up to and including November, VW had the largest BEV market share with 21 percent, followed by Tesla (eleven percent), Renault and Hyundai.