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VW Extends EV Lead in Europe as Registrations Rebound in Germany and Austria

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Overview

  • Germany’s September new-car registrations rose 12.8% to 235,528, with about 45,500 battery-electric cars reaching a 19.3% share and plug-in hybrids jumping 85% to 27,685 units.
  • Volkswagen is Europe’s BEV market leader in the first nine months with roughly 293,000 deliveries and about a 27% share, and Q3 data show global BEV deliveries up one-third to 252,100 even as overall volumes were flat near 2.2 million.
  • Model rankings shifted in Germany: the VW Golf returned to the top overall, the electric ID.7 led the upper mid-size segment, and the ID.3 was September’s top-registered EV at 2,979 units.
  • Austria logged a 12.6% rise in new-car registrations to 215,115 in the first three quarters, with 5,383 new EVs in September for a 20.9% share and a continued dominance of fleet registrations.
  • Used EVs show sharper depreciation than petrol cars—about €6,400 more after three years per Berylls—while E. ON estimates over 225,000 vehicles in Germany are already capable of bidirectional charging with sizable near-term storage potential.