Volkswagen introduced its next new electric vehicle ID.7 with simultaneous events in New York, Shanghai, and Berlin, and it is currently expected to go on sale in Europe and China later this year and in North America some time in 2024.
The design offers low-drag shape and some powertrain refinements that VW says will make the car highly efficient.
The brand’s new target is for at least 80 percent of its sales in Europe to be full-electric models in 2030. Impressive, when you consider that the Volkswagen Group (which includes Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, SEAT and more) reported 2,206,400 global vehicle sales during the fourth quarter of 2022 (up 14 percent year-over-year), despite the fact that for the year 2022 it ended with a 7 percent decrease compared to 2021, at 8,262,800 units.
Last year 325,100 Volkswagen BEVs were sold globally (a new record), which represents an increase of 23.6 percent compared to the year before in 2021 (263,059) and 7.1 percent of the total volume. for 2023, they expect a growth of at least 3% and sales were on track for Q1 2023, ending in March.
