EVWire brief: Volkswagen Group delivered 465,500 battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) worldwide in the first half of 2025, a 46.7% jump on the 317,200 units shipped a year earlier. Second-quarter BEV deliveries reached 248,700, up 37.6% year-on-year.
Details:
Regional mix: Europe took 347,900 BEVs in the first half of 2025, up 89%;
the sales in USA rose 24% to 31,300, while
VW Group deliveries in China slipped 34% year-on-year to 59,400.
Perhaps China’s results are something to raise some alarms here — the ID model lineup is already aged in the fast-paced Chinese EV market which is increasingly pushing foreign brands out. A market has long been a profit center for the group is drying up, will they be able to launch a new EV offensive there or retreat?
Important to note, that VW Group’s overall sales in China with 1,313,800 units for the first half of 2025 were down a lot less compared to BEVs, by -2.3%. So BEVs still make up just 4.52% of its sales in the world’s largest (electric) auto market.
Even VW Group itself mentioned the competition for APAC region:
“The region recorded a decline of 1.3 percent to 1,470,900 vehicles, mainly due to the intense competitive situation in China.”
Market share: BEVs made up 11 % of the VW Group’s global deliveries in the first half of 2025, up from 7 % last year. In Western Europe the share is 20%, giving the Group roughly 28% of the region’s BEV market.
In other words, every fifth Volkswagen Group vehicle delivered in Western Europe this year was fully electric.
Top selling EV models:
ID.4/ID.5 84,900;
ID.3 60,700;
Audi Q4 e-tron 44,600;
ID.7 38,700;
Škoda Enyaq 38,700.
Here are Volkswagen Group’s battery-electric vehicle sales per market:
Deliveries to customers by market | Apr. - Jun. 2025 | Apr. - Jun. 2024 | Delta (%) | Jan. - Jun. | Jan. - Jun. | Delta (%) |
Europe | 189,700 | 109,700 | +72.9 | 347,900 | 184,100 | +89.0 |
USA | 11,400 | 12,000 | -5.2 | 31,300 | 25,200 | +24.3 |
China | 33,400 | 49,600 | -32.6 | 59,400 | 90,600 | -34.5 |
Rest of the world | 14,200 | 9,500 | +49.3 | 27,000 | 17,300 | +55.8 |
World | 248,700 | 180,800 | +37.6 | 465,500 | 317,200 | +46.7 |
Total vehicle deliveries across all powertrains in Volkswagen Group was up 1.3 % to 4.41 million.
As for the brands that make up Volkswagen Group, the EV deliveries came down to:
Deliveries to customers by brand | Apr. - Jun. 2025 | Apr. - Jun. 2024 | Delta (%) | Jan. - Jun. | Jan. - Jun. | Delta (%) |
Volkswagen Passenger Cars | 97,500 | 100,300 | -2.8 | 192,600 | 168,500 | +14.3 |
Škoda | 46,000 | 15,500 | +196.8 | 73,000 | 29,400 | +147.8 |
SEAT/CUPRA | 19,000 | 11,300 | +67.2 | 37,600 | 18,300 | +105.3 |
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles | 14,800 | 7,600 | +94.2 | 25,500 | 14,700 | +73.4 |
Audi | 55,000 | 41,000 | +34.1 | 101,400 | 76,700 | +32.3 |
As you can see, Cupra and Skoda have more than doubled their EV sales this year.
Quotes:
❝The Volkswagen 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 percent 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 percent. 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 percent. Across all drive types, they went up by around 20 percent. We need to further strengthen this positive development by continuing our successful model offensive. Overall, we were able to slightly increase our global deliveries by the end of June despite challenging conditions. Gains in South America and Europe more than offset the expected declines in China and North America.❞
Source: Volkswagen Group press release
