While electric car sales are increasing significantly in some regions, they are decreasing in some regions. The best examples of this are China and Europe. While sales are increasing in China, there is stagnation of uncertainty in Europe. So what’s the current sales situation? Let’s examine it.
Decline in electric car sales in Germany!
Today, electric car sales of Germany, the cradle of the automobile market, were announced. In Germany, the heart of the European automobile industry, there is a 16.4 percent decrease in electric car sales. The situation of Tesla, the first brand that comes to mind when it comes to electric cars, is not much different in Germany. Tesla, which recorded a 41.6 percent decrease with a total of 21 thousand 249 sales in the January-June period, made sales of 4 thousand 648 units with a 42.2 percent decrease only in June. This figure left it behind MG, which sold 5 thousand 158 units.
When we leave aside electric cars and look at all passenger vehicle sales, we observe a 5.4 percent increase in the first half of the year. When we compare June of this year with June of 2023, there is an increase of 25.8 percent. In other words, no matter how much EV sales decrease, vehicles using fuels such as gasoline, hybrid and diesel still have serious sales figures. Let’s take a look at vehicle sales by brand.
There is information in the lists that BMW sold 114 thousand 690 vehicles in the first half of this year. BMW, which achieved an increase of 2.7 percent compared to the same period last year, is behind Mercedes, which reached 126 thousand 847 in total sales. Even though Mercedes experienced a decrease of 12.7 percent.
On the other hand, Volkswagen, which recorded a total of 289 thousand 218 sales with an increase of 11 percent, followed Seat with 83 thousand sales with an increase of 37.9 percent, Skoda with 104 thousand sales with an increase of 24.9 percent and Opel with 77 thousand sales with an increase of 15.5 percent. leaves it behind.