2020 'turning point' for Volkswagen EV sector with record sales
By Dalila Ouerghi
Published: Thursday, 14 January 2021
German carmaker Volkswagen Group delivered 212,000 electric cars in 2020, a 158% increase from a year earlier and a record high for the company despite a challenging market environment and an overall drop in sales due to the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, it said on Tuesday January 12.
The company reported total sales across all drive systems of
around 5.328 million vehicles, a decline of 15% year on
year.
Volkswagen launched nine new electric and plug-in hybrid
models during 2020 and total deliveries of...