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https://cleantechnica.com/2023/01/31/volkswagen-had-a-great-2022-26-more-evs-more-than-15000-rapid-charging-stations/>
"While still far behind EV leader Tesla, Volkswagen is making progress on
electric vehicles. During 2022, it managed to make a significant increase in EV
production and by the end of the year Volkswagen had put in a total of 15,000
EV rapid charging stations (so far). Let’s take a deeper look at the
information Volkswagen provided about each aspect of its EV business.
EV Production Up 26%
The Volkswagen Group (including brands like VW, Porsche, and more) 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 remarkable 26% increase from 2021. This pushed the
BEV share of total deliveries to 6.9% compared to last year’s 5.1% rate. In its
home market Europe, Volkswagen Group has remained as the top BEV leader while
in America it holds fourth place; however, China was where it experienced its
greatest spike with an astonishing 68% year-over-year growth.
Things weren’t as nice for gas- and diesel-powered cars. Total global
deliveries of vehicles were 7% lower than last year’s total of 8.3 million
vehicles due to the aforementioned issues. Luckily, in the second half of 2022,
supplies improved and led to a 12% annual increase in sales; however this was
not enough to cover up for the 22% plunge during the first six months of that
year. Despite all these setbacks, an impressive order bank remains stable with
1.8 million vehicles just from Western Europe alone — 310,000 being electric
cars.
So, it’s pretty clear that electric vehicles are an important and growing part
of VW’s business, even if only a small portion at present."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
