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You are here: Home / Car News / Volkswagen News / Volkswagen ID.3 helps VW’s electric car sales in 2020 to TREBLE

Volkswagen ID.3 helps VW’s electric car sales in 2020 to TREBLE

January 12, 2021 By Cars UK

Photo VW 2020 electric car sales chart

VW’s electric car sales up three fold in 2020

The electric Volkswagen ID.3 has helped Volkswagen to treble the number of electric cars sold in 2020, and increase sales of PHEVs too.

We all know Volkswagen is in the process of reinventing itself as a purveyor of fluffy green transport as it tries to move on from Dieselgate and keep on the right side of ever increasing restrictions on emissions.

So the news that, thanks in part to the arrival of the electric ID.3, VW has managed to all but treble (up 197%) EV sales in 2020 compared to 2019, must be encouraging news.

In fact when you add in plug-in hybrids to the equation VW managed to shift 212,000 electric cars in 2020 – up 158 per cent on 2019 – and, as a result, saw BEVs and PHEVs take a 12.4 per cent share of sales in Western Europe.

The most popular electric car, despite only starting sales in September, was the ID.3 with 56,500 deliveries (and 66,000 ordered) in 2020, followed by the now defunct e-Golf and the Passat GTE. VW’s Klaus Zellmer said:

We really hit the bullseye with the ID.3.Even though it was only introduced in the second half of the year, it ranked in the top of the sales charts in many countries almost right away.

It’s all good news for VW’s EV push, although to give it some context the BEV numbers of 134,000 pale in to almost insignificance compared to VW’s total sales in 2020 of 5,328,000 vehicles.

Still, it’s progress.

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Filed Under: Car News, Volkswagen News Tagged With: Electric Cars

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Comments

  1. Naf says

    January 12, 2021 at 4:45 pm

    a very engaging read:

    Reply
  2. Peter says

    January 12, 2021 at 3:42 pm

    Clearly from your comments you aren’t pro electric! I think from where they started biggest diesel car makers in the world to where they are a leading electric car manufacturer they have done well! If other car makers don’t follow suit they will be history fluffy green is the future

    Reply
    • Cars UK says

      January 12, 2021 at 3:54 pm

      Actually, we enjoy EVs very much. But they are still at early adopter stage and too expensive. Once price parity with ICE is possible then the game changes, especially if batteries can be made far less polluting.

      Reply

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