In 2020, Volkswagen Group Sold 422,100 Plug-In Electric Cars

The company revealed its top five BEVs and top five PHEVs.

The Volkswagen Group (which includes Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, SEAT and more) has seriously accelerated its global plug-in electric car sales last year, basically tripling the 2019 result, despite the challenges in 2020 that caused a 15.2% decline of the overall volume to 9,305,400.

According to the sales report for 2020, the group has sold roughly 231,600 all-electric cars (over three times more than in 2019), which represents 2.5% of the total. The plug-in hybrids also were growing pretty well – increased by 175% year-over-year to roughly 190,500!

As a result, the Volkswagen Group closed the year with 422,100 new plug-in electric car deliveries (up 195% year-over-year). That accounts for over 4.5% of the overall volume and opens the door for more than 10% in 2021.

BEVs: about 231,600 (up 214% year-over-year) and 2.49% of the total volume
PHEVs: about 190,500 (up 175% year-over-year) and 2.05% of the total volume
Total: about 422,100 (up 195% year-over-year) and 4.54% of the total volume

Volkswagen Group’s plug-ins were especially popular in Western Europe, where they accounted for 10.5% (compared to 1.9% in 2019) of the total volume of 2,939,900 (down 21.6% year-over-year). That would be 308,690 or over 73% of the total globally! It means that “only” 113,410 plug-ins were sold outside Western Europe (not even outside Europe).

In Germany, the group sold about 127,333 plugs-ins (11.6% out of total 1,097,700).

Top 5 all-electric models

The top-selling battery-electric car in the group was the all-new Volkswagen ID.3 with 56,500 deliveries. Great results were set also by the Audi e-tron family – 47,300, and the retiring Volkswagen e-Golf – 41,300. Porsche did pretty strong with the Taycan as well, achieving its target of 20,000 units.