{"id":677804,"date":"2026-01-06T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677804\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:00:12","slug":"ev-sales-rebound-in-germany-as-chinese-brands-make-inroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/677804\/","title":{"rendered":"EV sales rebound in Germany as Chinese brands make inroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle sales rebounded strongly in Germany in 2025, official data showed Tuesday, with Chinese manufacturers making inroads from a low base in the EU\u2019s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>EV sales rose 43.2 percent last year to 545,142 in total, the KBA federal transport authority said, representing 19.1 percent of all new cars sold.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese EV giant BYD \u2014 which last year overtook Elon Musk\u2019s Tesla to become the world\u2019s largest electric carmaker \u2014 saw its German sales rise over 700 percent to more than 23,000 cars, giving it 0.8 percent of the overall auto market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational vehicle manufacturers with affordable battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids have contributed disproportionately to growth in these segments,\u201d said Imelda Labbe, head of the VDIK foreign carmakers\u2019 lobby in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric vehicle sales rebounded strongly in Germany in 2025, official data showed Tuesday, with Chinese manufacturers making inroads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,522,197535],"class_list":{"0":"post-677804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-international","12":"tag-mna"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115848519551336063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}