VW Passes the 250,000 Mark for Electric Vehicles

In mid-December at the Autostadt, the Volkswagen (VW) brand delivered the latest of its 250,000 electric vehicles since the introduction of e-up! in 2013.

In mid-December at the Autostadt, the Volkswagen (VW) brand delivered the latest of its 250,000 electric vehicles since the introduction of the e-up! in 2013. The best-selling electric car has been the e-Golf with 104,000 units delivered, followed by the Golf GTE (51,000), Passat Variant GTE (42,000) and e-up! (21,000). Half of the customers opted for a battery electric vehicle and the other half for a plug-in hybrid.

The brand’s electrified model range has been continually expanded in the following years: e-Golf and Golf GTE followed in 2014, the Passat GTE05 and Passat Variant GTE in 2015. Since 2018, the Passat06 and Tiguan06 have been available as plug-in hybrids in China, where they were followed by battery-electric versions of the Bora06 and Lavida06 this year.

The 250,000th car is a “Pure White” e-Golf. Sandra Fleischer from Herne took delivery of the car at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg in mid-December.

Jürgen Stackmann, board member for Sales, Marketing and After Sales, said that with the 250,000th electrified vehicle, the Volkswagen brand has reached a major milestone on the way to carbon-neutral mobility.

“Especially all-electric vehicles such as our new ID family are the answer to major challenges of our times. They offer considerable driving pleasure and advantages we could only dream of a few years ago. They have a carbon-neutral balance, offer more space with comparable outside dimensions, and are quiet, highly efficient, economical and inexpensive to maintain. This is why we will be selling the next 250,000 electrified vehicles in a considerably shorter period of time. At Volkswagen, we are convinced that the future is electric.”

Despite some model changes, the Volkswagen brand delivered more than 70,000 electrified vehicles in 2019 – following 50,000 last year. The main sales markets in 2019 were China, Norway, Germany, the USA and the United Kingdom.

Recently, the BMW Group had announced that it has reached another electro-mobility milestone and already delivered half a million electric vehicles to customers worldwide.