{"id":40799,"date":"2023-01-20T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=40799"},"modified":"2023-01-20T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:04:00","slug":"mercedes-electric-car-sales-2022q4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=40799","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz More Than Doubled All-Electric Car Sales In Q4 And 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars reports 540,800 global car sales during the fourth quarter of 2022, which is 17 percent more than a year ago. In 2022, the company sold 2,043,900 cars &#8211; 1 percent less than in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, sales of plug-in electric cars (<a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/mercedes-benz\/\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/smart\/\">Smart<\/a> brands) in 2022 amounted to 319,200 units (including also Mercedes-Benz electric vans). That&#8217;s 19 percent more than in 2021. The share of rechargeable cars out of the total Mercedes-Benz car volume amounted to 15 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The most important thing for us is that the Mercedes-Benz brand managed to more than double its all-electric car and van sales to 117,800 units (up 124 percent year-over-year), not even including the Smart brand.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that the fourth quarter ended with 42,400 BEV sales, the company might be able to target 200,000 units in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes-Benz global plug-in car sales in Q4 2022 (preliminary numbers):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BEVs (excl. smart): 42,400 (up 122% from 19,100 a year ago)<\/li>\n<li>PHEVs: N\/A (61,400 minus Smart BEVs)<\/li>\n<li>Total plug-ins (including vans): 103,800<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the data, the most popular models in Mercedes-Benz&#8217;s lineup are the EQA and EQB, although the EQS is not far behind.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BEVs (excl. smart): 117,800 (up 124% from 52,500 a year ago)<br \/>EQA: 33,100<br \/>EQB: 24,200<br \/>EQE: 12,600<br \/>EQS: 19,200<br \/>other: 28,700<\/li>\n<li>PHEVs: N\/A (201,400\u00a0minus Smart BEVs, probably around 22,650 units)<\/li>\n<li>Total plug-ins (including vans): 319,200 (up 19%) and 15% share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The total EQ lineup currently includes eight models: EQA, EQB, EQC, EQE, EQE SUV, EQS, EQS SUV, and EQV.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed results:<\/p>\n<section class=\"trinity-skip-it\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"special_image\" data-align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"spi_wrapper\"><a class=\"lightzoom\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/mercedes-sales-q4-2022.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/thumbnail\/mercedes-sales-q4-2022.jpg\" alt=\"external_image\" width=\"3644\" height=\"2279\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Separately, Mercedes-Benz Vans announced 411,000 van sales in 2022 (up 4 percent year-over-year), including 121,500 in Q4 (up 14 percent).<\/p>\n<p>All-electric van sales in 2022 and Q4 amounted to respectively 14,700 (up 15 percent) and 4,800 (down 11 percent). Unfortunately, that is just a few percent (3-4%) of the total volume.<\/p>\n<p>The van lineup, includes the EQV (counted also in the passenger car sales report), eSprinter, eVito\/eVito Tourer and soon also EQT\/eCitan.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed results:<\/p>\n<section class=\"trinity-skip-it\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"special_image\" data-align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"spi_wrapper\"><a class=\"lightzoom\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/mercedes-van-sales-q4-2022.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/thumbnail\/mercedes-van-sales-q4-2022.jpg\" alt=\"external_image\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2250\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"relatedContent-new trinity-skip-it\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"related-content\" data-widget-size=\"content\" data-params=\"%7B%22type_id%22%3A0%2C%22title_id%22%3A%22%22%2C%22items%22%3A%5B%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22630890%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Mercedes%20Could%20Abandon%20EQ%20Branding%20As%20Early%20As%20Next%20Year%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22mercedes-to-drop-eq-branding-2024%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FWm4p3%2Fs5%2Fmercedes-benz-eqa-250.jpg%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22630530%22%2C%22title%22%3A%222024%20Mercedes-Benz%20EQG%20Spied%20During%20Winter%20Testing%20For%20The%20First%20Time%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22mercedes-eqg-spied-winter-testing%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2F9m9wQ1%2Fs5%2Fmercedes-eqg-2.jpg%22%7D%7D%5D%7D\">   <\/section>\n<section class=\"trinity-skip-it\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"video_mstv\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizer\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAYAAAA7KqwyAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAABpJREFUeNpi\/P\/\/PwMlgImBQjBqwLAwACDAAOVfAw9\/ZDvcAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars reports 540,800 global car sales during the fourth quarter of 2022, which is 17 percent more than a year ago. In 2022, the company sold 2,043,900 cars &#8211; 1 percent less than in 2021. Meanwhile, sales of plug-in electric cars (Mercedes-Benz and Smart brands) in 2022 amounted to 319,200 units (including also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}