- The first quarter has displayed strong growth for Volkswagen Group’s fully-electric BEV sector, with global customer deliveries in the first quarter of 2025 standing at 216,800 EVs – more than doubling Q1 of 2024’s statistic of 136,400 (a 58.9% year-on-year increase).
- The sales figure covers all of the Volkswagen Group Core brands, as well as luxury brands like Porsche and its commercial brands, such as MAN and Scania.
- With more affordable EVs on the horizon from Volkswagen Group, including the Volkswagen ID. EVERY1, could the group push EV sales even further in the years to come?
Volkswagen Group sees large EV sales increase in 2025
Broken down by region, Europe saw the most impressive EV delivery growth, with deliveries rising 112.6% year-on-year. The USA and Rest-of-World regions saw equivalent rises of 51% and 63.7% respectively, but it was a different story for the Chinese market, EV deliveries declined 36.8% year-on-year, though Volkswagen called this an ‘expected decline’. Three concept ‘NEVs’ designed specifically for China, which are set to be revealed at Auto Shanghai later this month, will hope to partly make an improvement to those figures.
We’ve already reported on Porsche’s impressive figure for fully-electric car deliveries in Q1 2025, with approximately 1 in 4 Porsches sold now being fully-electric. Its year-on-year growth was also significant, with 18,400 fully-electric Porsches sold in Q1 2025 – compared to 4,300 in Q1 2024 (a 326.4% rise). SEAT/CUPRA was another brand that saw EV deliveries more than double, up from 7,000 in Q1 2024 to 18,600 in Q1 2025. Apart from Volkwagen Group’s Brazil-based ‘Volkswagen Truck & Bus’, all other brands saw significant increases in EV deliveries compared to the same quarter of 2024, with the full figures published on Volkswagen’s site.
Marco Schubert, Member of Volkswagen Group’s Extended Executive Committee for Sales, commented:
“Our products are being well received and show that the Volkswagen Group is on the right track. We increased our all-electric deliveries worldwide by around 60 per cent in the first quarter. In Europe in particular, we were able to significantly expand our leading position in this segment with a doubling of deliveries. The share of all-electric models in our total volume in Western Europe also doubled to around 19 per cent. We have good momentum in our home region overall, which is also reflected in the 29 per cent increase in incoming orders across all drive types, bringing the order book there back up to around one million vehicles. In the coming months, we expect additional tailwind from numerous newly launched models.
Overall, global deliveries increased slightly in the period to the end of March. Gains in North and South America as well as in Europe have more than compensated for the expected decline in China.”
