Volkswagen raises EV deliveries by 47 per cent
The 465,500 electric cars delivered in the first half of the year and the increase of 46.7 per cent compared to H1 2024 are a positive development. However, it is also clear that the Group was not quite able to maintain the enormous growth from the first quarter of 2025 (+59%) in Q2: 248,700 electric cars delivered between April and June are an improvement on the opening quarter with 216,900 BEVs, but the 248,700 electric cars in Q2 correspond to an increase of ‘only’ 37.6 per cent compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Editor’s note: Volkswagen states deliveries are rounded to the nearest hundred. Due to rounding errors, the sum of the results from the first two quarters is 465,600 vehicles; for the first half of the year, VW states 465,500 deliveries, adjusted for this inaccuracy.
The somewhat slower electric growth in Q2 was primarily driven by Europe: With 189,700 BEVs and growth of just under 73 per cent, Europe remains by far Wolfsburg’s most important electric car sales market – in the first half of the year, growth was as high as 89 per cent with 347,900 electric deliveries. In China, the second-largest market, the trend is less positive: in Q2, deliveries fell by 32.6 per cent to 33,400, with a drop of 34.5 per cent after the first half of the year. In the USA, on the other hand, the trend is mixed: in the first half of the year, there was an increase of 24.3 per cent, but in the second quarter, there was a slight decline of 600 vehicles or 5.2 per cent.
| Deliveries by market | Q2 2025 | Q2 2024 | Delta (%) | H1 2025 | H1 2024 | Delta (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | 189,700 | 109,700 | +72.9 | 347,900 | 184,100 | +89.0 |
| USA | 11,400 | 12,000 | -5.2 | 31,300 | 25,200 | +24.3 |
| China | 33,400 | 49,600 | -32.6 | 59,400 | 90,600 | -34.5 |
| Rest of the world | 14,200 | 9,500 | +49.3 | 27,000 | 17,300 | +55.8 |
| Global | 248,700 | 180,800 | +37.6 | 465,500 | 317,200 | +46.7 |
Incidentally, the VW Group delivered 2.27 million vehicles across all drive types and brands in the second quarter – 248,700 BEVs, therefore means an electric car share of 10.95 per cent. Calculated for the first half of the year, with a total of 4.4 million deliveries and 465,500 electric vehicles, this equates to 10.57 per cent – a year ago, electric cars accounted for just seven per cent. Incidentally, VW delivered 192,300 plug-in hybrids in the first half of the year, an increase of 41 per cent.
Unsurprisingly, Volkswagen Passenger Cars recorded the most deliveries among the brands, even though deliveries in the second quarter fell slightly by 2.8 per cent year-on-year to 97,500 vehicles. At Skoda, the start of deliveries of the smaller Elroq e-SUV and the facelift of the Enyaq are likely to have had a noticeable impact: The Czechs saw a whopping 196 per cent increase from 15,500 to 46,000 electric cars delivered in Q2. Seat/Cupra (19,000 BEVs, +67.2%) and VW Commercial Vehicles (14,800 BEVs, +94.2%) also contributed to the growth of 31.5 per cent in the Core brand group.
The Progressive and Sport Luxury brand groups have a simpler structure: In Progressive (Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini), only the Ingolstadt-based company has delivered electric cars to date. The 55,000 electric cars (+34.1 per cent) therefore, all come from Audi. And the 235.6 per cent increase in Sport Luxury is attributable to the only brand in the Group: Porsche. With 15,800 deliveries after a weak result in Q2 2024 (4,700), Porsche is growing again, thanks to the Macan as the second e-model.
The aforementioned Macan also made it into the top ten best-selling models in the Group with 25,900 units in the first half of the year, in ninth place to be precise. In addition to the Macan, the PPE sister model Audi Q6 e-tron (incl. Sportback) also made it into the top ten in sixth place with 36,500 deliveries. The other eight models are all based on the MEB: the frontrunner is the VW ID.4/ID.5 duo with 84,900 units, ahead of the ID.3 (60,700) and the Audi Q4 e-tron (incl. Sportback) with 44,600 vehicles. The VW ID.7 (incl. Tourer) and the Skoda Enyaq (incl. Coupé) are virtually on a par behind them with 38,700 vehicles. With 34,300 deliveries, the Skoda Elroq was beaten by the Q6 e-tron, but is ahead of the ID. Buzz (incl. Cargo) with 27,600 deliveries, the Macan and the Cupra Born with 22,100 vehicles.
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| Deliveries by brand | Q2 2025 | Q2 2024 | Delta (%) | H1 2025 | H1 2024 | Delta (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core Brands | 177,200 | 134,800 | +31.5 | 328,700 | 230,900 | +42.3 |
| Volkswagen | 97,500 | 100,300 | -2.8 | 192,600 | 168,500 | +14.3 |
| Škoda | 46,000 | 15,500 | +196.8 | 73,000 | 29,400 | +147.8 |
| SEAT/CUPRA | 19,000 | 11,300 | +67.2 | 37,600 | 18,300 | +105.3 |
| Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles | 14,800 | 7,600 | +94.2 | 25,500 | 14,700 | +73.4 |
| Brand Group Progressive | 55,000 | 41,000 | +34.1 | 101,400 | 76,700 | +32.3 |
| Audi | 55,000 | 41,000 | +34.1 | 101,400 | 76,700 | +32.3 |
| Bentley | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Lamborghini | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Brand Group Sport Luxury | 15,800 | 4,700 | +235.6 | 34,200 | 9,000 | +279.0 |
| Porsche | 15,800 | 4,700 | +235.6 | 34,200 | 9,000 | +279.0 |
| Brand Group Trucks / TRATON | 700 | 300 | +124.1 | 1,300 | 600 | +108.8 |
| MAN | 440 | 100 | +330.4 | 810 | 240 | +243.5 |
| Volkswagen Truck & Bus | 0 | 10 | -87.5 | 50 | 80 | -44.0 |
| Scania | 120 | 60 | +88.7 | 220 | 110 | +102.8 |
| International | 90 | 120 | -21.2 | 180 | 170 | +2.9 |
| Volkswagen Group (total) | 248,700 | 180,800 | +37.6 | 465,500 | 317,200 | +46.7 |
This leaves us with the Trucks brand group, Traton. MAN was able to increase its electric deliveries of trucks and buses from 100 to 440 units, while Scania almost doubled from 60 to 120. International (formerly: Navistar) saw a drop of 21.2 per cent to 90 units, while Volkswagen Truck & Bus did not have a single electric vehicle on its balance sheet for the second quarter. Editor’s note: In the case of trucks, VW reports the figures to the nearest ten, so rounding errors may also occur here.
“The Volkswagen Group continues to have strong momentum thanks to many newly launched models. This applies especially to all-electric vehicles, with global deliveries up by around 50 percent in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year,” said Marco Schubert, Member of the Extended Group Management Board for Sales. “This trend was particularly strong in Europe, with growth of around 90 percent. One in five of the vehicles we delivered in Western Europe is now purely electric. The corresponding orders are also developing dynamically: they increased by more than 60 percent.”
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