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Wolfsburg (dpa) - The Corona crisis put the Volkswagen Group's sales in the last year a strong damper.

Overall, deliveries by the world's largest car group fell by 15.2 percent to around 9.3 million vehicles.

VW announced this on Wednesday after the core brand and individual subsidiaries had previously announced details.

However, there was significant growth in cars with alternative drives.

For pure electric vehicles, the group reported a tripling to just under 232,000 units in 2020 and an increase of 175 percent to more than 190,000 units for plug-in hybrids.

Overall, however, the decline in demand caused problems for the Wolfsburg-based company as well as many other manufacturers.

Deliveries in the home market of Western Europe were particularly weak, with a decline of almost 22 percent compared to the previous year.

In North America, too, the minus was considerable (17.4 percent), while the group got off a bit more lightly in the most important market of China, including Hong Kong, with a decrease of 9.1 percent.

The core brand VW Passenger Cars lost 15.1 percent worldwide, Audi 8.3, Skoda 19.1 and Seat 25.6 percent.

At Porsche, global deliveries fell by 3.1 percent.

As in other industries, the luxury business was not as badly affected by the decline in corona demand.

The light VW commercial vehicles reported a minus of 24.4 percent.

The situation stabilized in December - in the last month of the past year there was a loss of 3.2 percent across the Group and worldwide.