German EV production reaches new record in first half of 2025 – industry association
Clean Energy Wire
Car manufacturers in Germany produced a record-setting 635,000 battery electric cars in the first six months of 2025, said the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). This was about a quarter of the total of 2.5 million cars produced in Germany during that period.
“Germany is Europe's most important e-production location and will further consolidate its position as the world's second-largest production location for e-cars this year,” said VDA president Hildegard Müller.
Latest data by the country’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) show that the upward trend of new EV registrations within Germany continued in July of this year, but monthly registrations are still far from record-levels. Of all new cars, 18.4 percent were battery-electric.
The shift to electric cars is Germany’s central lever to reduce transport emissions, but the roll-out of low-emission vehicles has not exactly been smooth. Following the budget crisis in 2023, the government abruptly ended its electric car subsidy programme and EV sales collapsed. The current government has promised new purchase incentives.
The global market share of electric cars has more than doubled in three years, said the research arm of Germany’s state-owned business and economic development bank, KfW.
