With the commercial results of the VW Group for the third quarter of 2025 now known, it is clear that the performance of its offering of 100% electric models has evolved significantly compared to last year (33%, corresponding to 252,100 cars sold), and even more so in the cumulative total for the first nine months of the year (41.7%, due to 717,500 units delivered). In percentage terms, from July to September, the market that recorded the greatest growth was the second largest in the world in absolute terms, that of the USA (213.5%, from 11,900 to 37,400 vehicles), but Europe continues to be, unsurprisingly, the main destination for the fully electric models of the German conglomerate (174,700 units sold, compared to 109,200 delivered to customers in the third quarter of the previous year, an increase of 60%) – while in China, the largest market in the world in absolute terms, and also regarding electric vehicles, sales of the German manufacturer’s electric cars fell by 55.2%, from 57,500 to 25,800 units, a situation that is likely influenced by the increasingly fierce and competent competition from local manufacturers.
By brand, VW is the one that, among the group, ranked first on the list of those that sold the most electric cars in the third quarter of this year (95,100 units, down 7.4% from last year), followed by Audi (62,000 units, +58.6%), Skoda (45,600 units, +113.8%), Cupra (19,800 units, +53.7%), Porsche (14,700 units, +98.2%), and VW Commercial Vehicles (14,100 units, +162.1%). By model, the VW ID.4/ID.5 range is at the top of the consortium’s sales (128,900 units), followed by the VW ID.3 (88,800 units), the Audi Q4 e-tron (65,700 units), the Audi Q6 e-tron (63,800 units), and the Skoda Elroq (60,400 units, already very close to the Top 5).
Finally, a note on the sales of the VW Group taking into account all brands, all models, and all powertrains: 2,198,800 cars sold in the third quarter of 2025, of which 252,100 were fully electric, meaning 11.5% of the total, less than what the largest car manufacturer in Europe aimed for – with an even lower proportion in the first nine months of the year: the 717,500 100% electric cars sold during this period accounted for no more than 10.9% of a total of 6.6 million cars sold (while plug-in hybrids recorded 299,000 sales from January to September this year).
