VW defies the difficult car markets – Audi weaker

Above all, a boom in electric automotive purchases, which increased by 47 percent across the group to 465,500, the plus secured, as the group announced. The core brand cut off even better.

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In China, Volkswagen lost 2.3 percent to 1.31 million deliveries in the first half of the year in the first half of the year, but the trend is positive there, because in the second quarter the group was able to achieve an easy plus by 2.8 percent. In the highly competitive electric car market China, the Volkswagen Group in the middle of the discount battle of local manufacturers had focused on the combustion models, according to a speaker. Although the e-cars in the People’s Republic went downhill by almost a third in the second quarter, VW was able to increase sales as a whole.

Electro-boom in Europe

In Europe, the group sold a little more cars. This was mainly due to the fact that the paragraph of the pure Stromer was massively increasing there. In the first half of the year there is an increase of 89 percent to 347,000 cars. In addition, the orders of the electric cars in Western Europe attract significantly. In the home market in Germany, too, the group has increased its new electricity registrations in the first half of the year and has now dominated the undisputed.

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In the United States, an increase in electric cars helped almost a quarter, but it was only able to dampen the decline in deliveries in North America. They dropped by almost 7 percent to 462,000 in the first half of the year.

Core brand clear in plus

The core brand VW car came to an increase of 4.5 percent in the first half of the year and delivered 2.3 million cars. Here, too, BEV sales rose disproportionately, even if not nearly as strong as the foreign daughters Skoda and Seat/Cupra, which each achieved more than doubling.

At Audi, on the other hand, it still looks weak, the group recorded a minus of 5.9 percent to 783,531 cars. After all: With the pure electric cars (BEV) it was also uphill: 101,381 deliveries meant an increase of 32 percent.

“The positive trend in the BEV deliveries and order inputs clearly shows how well our new BEV portfolio will be received by our customers. At the end of the year we will have the latest portfolio in the premium competition,” emphasizes sales director Marco Schubert.

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