VW celebrates 250,000 EVs sold

Volkswagen has announced it has sold its 250,000th electric vehicle, following a customer taking delivery of a white VW e-Golf in mid-December last year.

Celebrating more than 70,000 sales of electrified cars in 2019, VW said it took seven years to achieve the quarter of a million milestone.

The next 250,000 sales will be a lot quicker to rack up, the German car-maker hopes, following the launch of its VW Golf-sized ID.3 hatch later this year.

Included in the sales achievement is the small VW e-Up city car, that was launched in 2013, the plug-in hybrid Golf GTE (2014) and the Passat GTE sedan and wagon (2015).

Out of all those models, plus a plug-in version of the Tiguan SUV for China (and the China-only battery-powered Bora and Lavida), it's the e-Golf that has captured the environmentally-inclined buyers' hearts and minds, with over 104,000 units sold.

The e-Golf, which is set to be dropped with the arrival of the latest Golf, will be replaced by the 'ID' family of electric vehicles.

Volkswagen is confident the new family of EVs will be successful and has already announced it now plans to produce 1.5 million electric vehicles by 2025 – 500,000 more than previously anticipated.

Even Australia will be part of the electric sales total, with VW's first full pure-electric ID model, the ID.4 SUV, set to arrive in 2022.

"With the 250,000th electrified vehicle, the Volkswagen brand has reached a major milestone on the way to carbon-neutral mobility," stated Volkswagen sales and marketing boss Jurgen Stackmann.

He added that EVs "...are the answer to major challenges of our times."