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by tonfa 1907 days ago
Worldwide data: https://cleantechnica.com/files/2021/02/World-plugin-vehicle...

VW is pretty impressive, did they have any popular electric vehicle before last year?

edit: Yes, they have a massive growth indeed, if they continue like that they'll likely overtake tesla already this year: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1130931_vw-group-sold-al...

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VW plans to produce 1.5 million EVs per year ~in their Zwickau plant~ worldwide from 2025 onwards. They are also evaluating more plants to switch to full EV production.

Tesla expects to make 500.000 cars per year in their German plant they are currently building.

Edit: 330.00 in Zwickau, 1.5 million world-wide.

Do you have a source for that? As far as I know, Zwickau has already made its last ICE and they're targeting 1k units a day - and not seven days a week. Are you sure you're not mixing up total VW BEV numbers?
Thank you for the correction. I misread.

https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/zwickau-3755

VW has the ID.3 and ID.4 in Europe, which are fairly successful.
Those are "plugin" sales, which includes hybrids along with EVs.