Volkswagen Group delivered more than 3.18 million passenger vehicles in China last year, a drop of 3.6 percent from 2021, enough to remain the country’s top automaker, the German auto giant’s China unit said Thursday.
Roughly 2.4 million vehicles were marketed and sold under the Volkswagen brand, a 1.3-percent slide.
Audi sales shrank 8.4 percent to 642,548 last year while Porsche deliveries decreased 2.5 percent to 93,286.
Skoda sales plunged 60 percent to 44,600.
VW Group also delivered 3,655 Bentley vehicles and 1,018 Lamborghini vehicles in China last year.
In contrast to the decline in its overall sales, group-wide deliveries of full electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids surged 37 percent to 206,500, VW Group China said.
The tally includes more than 155,000 EVs, a 68 percent jump from a year earlier. Of that volume, 143,100 were generated by the VW brand’s ID-series, more than doubling the number in 2021.
Despite the overall sales decline, VW Group remained the largest automaker in China in 2022.
Last year, General Motors, the second largest auto manufacturer in the market, delivered 2.3 million vehicles locally, slipping 21 percent from 2021.
