Volkswagen is selling more EVs than petrol cars in Germany, and building them in Spain

Volkswagen is now taking more orders for electric cars than for petrol and diesel in Germany, its home market and the largest in Europe, and has cancelled planned extra shifts at Wolfsburg while adding them at Emden and Zwickau. The four budget models driving the shift have taken about 100,000 orders between them and are all built in Spain.

Volkswagen is taking more orders for electric cars than for petrol and diesel in Germany, InsideEVs reported, citing Automobilwoche. Germany is its home market and the largest in Europe. The company is now rewriting production schedules across several plants.

Wolfsburg builds the petrol cars.

The historic plant makes the Golf, Tiguan and Tayron, and Volkswagen had planned additional shifts to lift this year’s output from 580,000 vehicles to more than 600,000. Those shifts have been cancelled. Demand for combustion models has fallen away.

Two other plants gain.

Emden, which assembles...

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