Volkswagen takes the electric vehicle crown – Tesla on the ground!

Volkswagen takes the electric vehicle crown – Tesla on the ground!

In the first half of 2025, the Volkswagen Group clearly dominated the German market for newly registered electric cars. With an impressive market share of over 46 percent, VW has improved significantly compared to the previous year, when the share was just under 32 percent. This means that Volkswagen and its subsidiaries such as Audi, Škoda, Seat and Porsche control the majority of the electric vehicle market segment in Germany, such as Time reported.

Second place on the market is occupied by the BMW Group, which, including its Mini and Rolls-Royce brands, has achieved a market share of over 11 percent. The gap between BMW and Škoda is small and amounts to just 213 vehicles. While BMW specializes in the premium segment, Škoda operates in the volume sector. Audi and Mercedes-Benz follow behind BMW in fourth and sixth place.

Tesla's decline and market conditions

A particularly noticeable trend is the decline of Tesla, which suffered a dramatic loss with just 3.6 percent market share. Compared to the previous year, when Tesla achieved just under 12 percent, the company fell to eighth place among automobile manufacturers. Volkswagen's dominance is becoming increasingly clear, as the group has now achieved a share of new electric car registrations that is a good four percentage points higher than in the overall market (approx. 40 percent). This noticeably increases the competitive conditions in the electric vehicle sector t-online.de determines.

At the model level, the VW Group's vehicles also occupy the top ranks. The Volkswagen ID.7 tops the list of best-selling electric cars by far, followed by five other models from the VW family. BMW's X1 is in seventh place, while Tesla's Model Y has fallen to ninth. These developments show how the VW Group's strengths in e-mobility are sustainably changing market conditions.