OUR Volkswagen no more electric vehicles for sale in the markets of Europe and the USA. However, this does not mean that the second largest producer electric vehicles of the world broke the sales record. The reality is that the production chain Volkswagens was affected by the problems of an almost infinite chip shortage.

Volkswagen will deliver part of the orders only in 2023

Adding all brands owned Volkswagenas Audi and Porschethe German manufacturer has sold more than 99,000 electric vehicles in the first quarter of the year. However, the shortage of semiconductors and War in Ukraine affected its production chain. Gerber Diss, boss Volkswagen Groupannounced that before stocks ran out, the manufacturer had 300,000 orders for electric vehicles in Western Europe. According to Diess, all new orders for electric vehicles (of all the brands in the group) will only be delivered in 2023.

Like a small misfortune is nonsense, the goal is to sell 700,000 electric vehicles in 2022 can already be postponed. In addition to running out of stock and rushing to deliver as many as possible of the 300,000 orders placed before a problem in the production chain, the company’s plans VolkswagenNo sell 140000 electric vehicles in China is far from being realized. The manufacturer sold only 28,800 pieces. cars in a country whose factories have gone through several blocking this year. We are halfway to 2022 and Volkswagens did not account for 50% of target sales in China.

Volkswagens are far from beating Tesla

plan Volkswagen it sell more electric vehicles that Tesla. The German’s target of 700,000 vehicles sold will come close to more than 900,000 vehicles sold by the competitor in 2021. This year, Tesla’s first-quarter result was a competitor’s sales tripling. Volkswagens. For the first three months of 2022 Elon Musk over 310,000 delivered electric vehicles.

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Source: Ars Technika