Summary
- Volkswagen beat Tesla in European EV sales across the first three months of 2025, data shows.
- Registrations for VW EVs are up more than 150%, while Tesla lost huge ground.
- However, the Model Y and Model 3 remain Europe’s top two most-registered EVs.
Watch out for BYD from China.
We have them, but people don’t seem to be too eager to buy.
I live in Germany and I would love to buy a chinese EV but I just can’t find any place that sells them. You just can’t really order cars online from China like you can with other products.
I’ve seen some BYD here in Germany. No clue where they were bought though.
And that ugly Ora whatever cat. I’ve seen that as well 😵💫
Send them an email.
Right now they’re more expensive in Europe due to tariffs (not the Trump ones), however there were some talks about the EU reducing or removing the tariff on them in which case I can see demand exploding because of their price.
On my second ID4, and the wife has our first ID3. Lovely cars to drive, will never go back to an ice car again.
Why a second? Your first couldn’t have been any more than 5 years old.
3 year PCP deals
What’s your opinion on used ID4s from 2021ish? Used ones are surprisingly cheap to get and I’m a little unsure why that is
We’d a 211 ID4 and it was a lovely car. It was in perfect condition when we traded it in last year. How cheap are ye talking? High km on it?
We might need a car at some point in the next 12 months, that’s why I look online from time to time for a used BEV to get a feeling how much money we will need. I had the feeling that ID4s usually lose more value over time than ID3s, but I didn’t analyse it much further than that. Roughly, the numbers I saw were new ones are 30k€ for an ID3 and 40k€ for an ID4 while you apparently can get both used for 20k€.
Somewhat amazed they’ve rebounded this much given the VW emission scandal some years back. Guess it wasn’t that brand-damaging after all.
Barely made a dent commercially, but put the company in a difficult financial situation where build quality was a bit lower and cars a bit more expensive for a while.
The point of these punishments should never be to kill a company, but to hurt investors, who are ultimately responsible for setting the CEOs agenda.
And, well, VW stock is still down about -80% compared to pre-dieselgate. So I would say eurocapitalism working as intended.
At the time, news reports credited the scandal with forcing VW to start investing in EVs. Without that scandal, they’d still be struggling to get started
VW are all time cunts, but somehow their competition are even cuntier.
I don’t think there really are ethical car manufacturers tbh, but it’s a spectrum for sure…
After Krasnov was elected, all big ticket items are on hold for at least two years. Bravo Volkswagen Group kicking Tesla in the nutsacks. Carry on!
“What a tweest!”
Now they could deal with their quality management in terms of software as a next, huge leap.
Yet teslas stock is skyrocketing….how is this happening?!!?
Same reason Truth Social does. A bunch of idiots praying to their master.
Wow that Herbert Diess guy was right!
Although I love the positivity, this is more a story about Tesla than VW.
I have always been a Toyota guy, and recently driving a Toyota corolla hybrid made me want that car.
