Electromobility: German e -car market: VW dominates – Tesla falls back

Volkswagen has a firm grip on the German electric market market. After the rival Tesla crashed, the brand and the group from Wolfsburg dominate in the new registration figures of the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) for the first quarter. Only BMW can currently keep up, while the former number one Tesla has now been given to eighth place.

The KBA has a total of 112,968 new registrations of pure electric cars from January to March. The VW brand is clear number one with 25,393 before BMW with 10,315. This is followed by three VW daughters with Skoda, Audi and Seat, who achieved 9,258, 8,634 and 8,063 new registrations.

Sixth place goes to Mercedes with 7,090 in front of Hyundai with 5,316. Tesla only follows eighth with 4,935 cars. In the same period last year, which, however, had also been confused by the elimination of the environmental bonus, Tesla was still in third place in the year in third place.

Almost every second electric car from the VW group

There are special effects this year too. Many manufacturers have postponed electric car registrations from 2024 after 2025 in order to achieve the tightened fleet targets for C02 emissions more easily. In addition to the political activities of CEO Elon Musk, Tesla should also have suffered from Model Y from the recent facelift.

But even in March, the brand’s new registrations only slightly attracted. VW is now also at the top of the models and – counted the daughters – is also topped to be six to six. The ID.7 with 9,336 new registrations is at the forefront. Teslas Model Y – number one in Germany in 2024 – falls back to seventh place.

How dominant VW is currently in the German E-Auto market shows when you look at the group level. Including Skoda, Audi, Seat and Porsche, Volkswagen has 53,880 new electrical approvals: that is almost 48 percent market share or almost every new new current. BMW comes to a good 11 percent with the daughter Mini.