Let’s take a deeper look at the information Volkswagen provided about each aspect of its EV business.The Volkswagen Group says it has made significant progress toward EV transformation in 2022. Despite supply challenges and temporary manufacturing halts, global customers received 572,100 all-electric vehicles — a remarkablefrom 2021. This pushed the BEV share of total deliveries to 6.9% compared to last year’s 5.1% rate.
“Our brands have shown a decent performance regarding deliveries in a very challenging environment last year. I am particularly pleased that our electric transformation gained further traction across the brands and that we reached our target share of around 7 to 8 percent for all-electric vehicles despite these headwinds,” said Hildegard Wortmann, Member of the Extended Executive Committee for Sales. “The high order bank is a clear proof that customers love our entire strong product portfolio.
Last year, the top selling EVs were the Volkswagen ID.4 and ID.3, followed by the ŠKODA Enyaq iV and Audi Q4 e-tron.The Volkswagen Group has just finished an interim evaluation of its global fast-charging points network: By 2022,with up to 350 kW charging power had been connected — that’s one third of its total goal amounting to 45,000 HPC points.
The Group brands Audi and Volkswagen Passenger Cars, together with the renowned sports-car maker Porsche, have joined forces to form IONITY in order to install fast-charging points across Europe. To further this effort, last year they also created Ewiva — a joint venture between themselves and Enel X Way from the reputable Enel Group.