Earlier, Volkswagen announced its car sales in 2021. In 2021, Volkswagen's car sales in China fell sharply by 14.8% year-on-year, and global car sales also fell by 14.1% to 3.3 million units, indicating that the challenges facing Volkswagen in the past year are very large.
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But not all data is on the decline. According to the latest figures, Volkswagen's plug-in electric vehicle sales — new energy vehicles (NEVs) — more than doubled in China last year to nearly 119,000 units (up 128 percent year-on-year). Among them, the sales volume of the ID. family reached 70,625 units (accounting for or close to 60%). It is worth mentioning that Volkswagen launched the ID.family (ID.3, ID.4 series and ID.6 series) only 9 months ago.
The Volkswagen ID. family failed to meet its sales target of 80,000-100,000 vehicles. Part of what happened is an industry-wide shortage of chips. Stephan Wllenstein, CEO of Volkswagen Brand China, said: "Since October, the lack of cores in the industry has also begun to affect the ID. family, but as the situation gradually improves, we expect the ID. series to grow further solid sales in 2022, especially the OTA feature will be launched later this year. ”
According to Wallenstein, Volkswagen aims to double its sales of electric vehicles, particularly the ID. series, by 2022. This means that Volkswagen should sell more than 140,000 units in 2022 or an average of more than 11,600 units per month, which looks like it is possible. Volkswagen's overall goal is to increase sales by 500,000 units or 15 percent by 2022.
At the same time, it is worth noting that Porsche (part of the Volkswagen Group) has sold more than 7,000 Taycans in China (about 10% of Volkswagen ID. sales), not far from more than 9,400 in the United States