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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\nSo far this year, more than 173,000 passenger plug-in electric cars have been registered in Germany, which is 11 percent less than a year ago.<\/p>\n
Registrations year-to-date:<\/p>\n
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- BEVs: 124,476 \u2013 up 18% at 14.3% market share<\/li>\n
- PHEVs: 49,332 \u2013 down 45% at 5.7% market share<\/li>\n
- Total: 173,808 \u2013 down 11% at 20.0% market share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
For reference, in 2022, more than 832,000 new passenger plug-in cars were registered in Germany<\/a>, compared to over 681,000 in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\nIn April, four German brands (Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi) were at the top of the list of the highest number of registrations of rechargeable cars. Volkswagen was also the top player in terms of all-electric car sales (5,368 registrations).<\/p>\n
Plug-in car registrations by brands (at least 1,000) last month:<\/p>\n
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- Volkswagen: 5848 – 5368 BEVs and 480 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Mercedes-Benz: 5214 – 2322 BEVs and 2892 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- BMW: 3305 – 1823 BEVs and 1482 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Audi: 2850 – 1875 BEVs and 975 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Tesla: 2420 – 2420 BEVs<\/li>\n
- Hyundai: 2161 – 1784 BEVs and 377 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Opel: 1730 – 1261 BEVs and 469 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Seat: 1723 – 934 BEVs and 789 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Skoda: 1658 – 1405 BEVs and 253 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- smart: 1559 – 1559 BEVs<\/li>\n
- Kia: 1533 – 789 BEVs and 744 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Volvo: 1277 – 513 BEVs and 764 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- MG Roewe: 1010 – 1008 BEVs and 2 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Fiat: 1004 – 1004 BEVs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
As we can see below, despite a slower April, Tesla maintained its first position year-to-date, although Volkswagen is right behind.<\/p>\n
Plug-in car registrations by brands (at least 4,000) year-to-date:<\/p>\n
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- Tesla: 23075 – 23075 BEVs<\/li>\n
- Volkswagen: 22294 – 18811 BEVs and 3483 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Mercedes-Benz: 21069 – 9620 BEVs and 11449 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Audi: 14437 – 9512 BEVs and 4925 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- BMW: 11689 – 6157 BEVs and 5532 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Hyundai: 8235 – 7178 BEVs and 1057 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Seat: 7234 – 3379 BEVs and 3855 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Volvo: 5825 – 2797 BEVs and 3028 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Skoda: 5549 – 4141 BEVs and 1408 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Opel: 5082 – 3374 BEVs and 1708 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- smart: 4939 – 4939 BEVs<\/li>\n
- Peugeot: 4283 – 2997 BEVs and 1286 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- MG Roewe: 4141 – 4125 BEVs and 16 PHEVs<\/li>\n
- Fiat: 4129 – 4129 BEVs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Last month, the most popular model happened to be the Volkswagen ID.4<\/a>\/ID.5 duo with some 2,723 units, followed by the Volkswagen ID.3<\/a> (2,050). We also saw not bad 1,405 Skoda<\/a> Enyaq iV and 1,370 Audi Q4 e-tron<\/a>, which are direct cousins of the ID.4\/ID.5.<\/p>\n