Volkswagen Group EV deliveries jump 50% in first half of 2025
The Volkswagen Group has reported strong electric vehicle sales in the first half of 2025, with a near-50% increase globally and a 90% jump in Western Europe.
Around the world the automotive giant delivered 465,500 all-electric models – a 47% increase over the first half of 2024. However, in Western Europe, deliveries of EVs from the group, whose brands include Volkswagen, Seat, Cupra, Skoda, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Porsche, almost doubled to 347,900.
Porsche and Skoda enjoyed particularly big first halves to the year, with the sports car brand’s EV deliveries soaring 279% as customers received their orders of the new Macan Electric SUV and the updated Taycan fastback.
Seat/Cupra also saw strong performance as its EV range expanded with the addition of the Tavascan SUV alongside the Born hatchback. The Spanish brands enjoyed a 148% growth – 10 times the growth seen by Volkswagen itself.
While VW’s deliveries were only up 14%, its ID.4/ID.5 siblings remained the group’s top-performing model, with 84,900 delivered worldwide between January and June. The ID.3 hatchback was the group’s third-most delivered model, ahead of the Audi Q4 e-tron and VW ID.7.
Several new models helped drive up the Groups’ overall performance, including the new Macan, the Skoda Elroq and Audi Q6 e-tron, along with updated versions of the VW ID Buzz and Skoda Enyaq. Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles also saw a 74% increase in deliveries of electric models as its new T7 Transporter BEV reached the market alongside the ID Buzz.
Marco Schubert, executive committee member for sales commented: “The 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 per cent in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year. This trend was particularly strong in Europe, with growth of around 90 per cent. 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 per cent.”
Schubert noted that the strong growth in Europe, along with gains in South America offset what he called expected declines in the United States and China, where deliveries were down 5% and 33% respectively.
