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

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

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Mark Kane

By: Mark Kane

Jan 14, 2021 at 12:52pm ET

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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).

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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.

Volkswagen ID.3 - 56,500
Audi e-tron - 47,300
Volkswagen e-Golf - 41,300
Volkswagen e-up! - 22,200
Porsche Taycan - 20,000

Volkswagen ID.3 (2020) in the test

Volkswagen ID.3

Audi E-tron Sportback

Volkswagen e-Golf

Volkswagen e-up!

Porsche Taycan 4S

Top 5 plug-in hybrid models:

In the case of plug-in hybrid, the individual volumes are not as high:

Volkswagen Passat GTE - 27,200
Audi Q5 - 23,500
Porsche Cayenne - 21,500
ŠKODA Superb iV - 16,400
Volkswagen Golf GTE / eHybrid - 15,200

Volkswagen Passat GTE 2020

2021 Audi Q5 55 TFSI e quattro

Audi Q5 55 TFSI e quattro

Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid

Škoda Superb iV

Volkswagen Golf GTE

Volkswagen Golf GTE / eHybrid

More sales reports from the Volkswagen Group

In 2020, Volkswagen Brand Sold More Than 212,000 Plug-In Electric Cars

In 2020 Audi Sold Over 47,000 e-tron All-Electric Cars

Porsche Taycan Sales Exceed 20,000 In 2020

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