German car sales grow in 2023, but EVs struggle
To compensate for the abolished EV bonuses, German car manufacturers like Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz payed the governmental EV bonus themselves in December last year. Pictured is VW’s EV best-seller, the ID.4 /Volkswagen
Last year, 2,84 million cars were sold in Germany, or 7,3% more than in 2022. Electrified vehicles, however, struggle to find buyers, primarily due to the disappearance of practically all incentives for buying them.
979 000 of the cars sold were simply gasoline engine powered, and that's a 13% gr
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