Last year, overall vehicle sales in Europe barely ticked up, rising 2.2 percent from 2024. EV sales, meanwhile, increased by 29 percent, bringing market share to an impressive 19.5 percent.
That’s according to data from automotive analyst JATO Dynamics, which finds that the big winner has been Volkswagen. Last year, its EVs outsold those from Tesla for the first time as sales of VW’s electric offering grew by 56 percent, while Tesla’s shrank by 27 percent.
To put that into concrete numbers, VW sold 274,278 EVs to Tesla’s 236,357. And that’s just the VW brand itself—the automaker also owns Skoda (in 4th place, with 171,703 sales), Audi (5th place, 153,845 sales), Cupra (15th place, 79,269 sales), and Porsche (21st place, 32,715 sales). Not a bad effort, considering just over a decade has passed since VW’s Dieselgate scandal.
Volkswagen sucks. The only reason they are doing relatively well is because Musk has been the perfect spokesperson for every other car company except his own.
VW could have massively long-term profited from this but nope. They make mediocre EVs and to make it worse, they are even backpedaling from their earlier modest investments into EVs.
There’s very little reason to believe this changed anything. They are angry that they got caught, not because they did it.
Can we add Volvo to that list? Just go buy Korean brands.
Or cheap French, those are doing well.
Fuuuuuuuuck i was looking at a Volvo… What are they up to?
Volvo belongs to Geely which owns a few other brands focused on electric cars such as Polestar and Zeekr.
Outdated.
Expensive.
Banking on eco friendly with recycled look, but aren’t actually all that eco.
Currently prone to being set ablaze, currently going through a recall.
SUPER INEFFICIENT. like one of the worst efficient cars I’ve test driven.
Super heavy, they cram inefficient batteries as they recycle ice bases and just increase the battery size = extra weight = extra cost to charge etc.
There’s a lot honestly. You got to compare it to what is out there right now. People tend to compare them to their current 10 year old car or are simply blind to the flaws. Genuinely, I wouldn’t recommend it or polestar to anyone unless you really like how they look and you care not about money.
Well, they are now owned by a chinese company. Stilm produce in sweden though and are great for safety and ecology.