- The Volkswagen ID.7 was the best-selling electric car in Germany in 2025, followed by four other cars from the Volkswagen Group.
- Volkswagen dominated the home electric vehicle sales charts last year with eight of the 10 best-selling vehicles.
- The manufacturer has high hopes that the ID will be affordable. The Polo, which will be launched this year, will be an instant hit.
Volkswagen is the homegrown electric vehicle leader in Europe now, with a series of battery-powered models that have proven consistently popular across the continent (and have benefited from… Some discontent related to Elon Musk.) The brand is selling very well in its home market of Germany, where EV deliveries rose 60.7% to 93,800, and the best-selling model was not the brand’s cheapest electric offering.
Surprisingly, it was the brand’s flagship electric car ID.7 ago– the electric equivalent of the Passat – captured German buyers with 35,000 cars delivered at home, representing a 132% year-on-year increase and outselling the brand’s smaller, cheaper models. Ecomento It reveals that the five best-selling electric cars in Germany last year were made by the VW Group.
The ID.7 has seen similar success across Europe, with EV sales rising in 2025 though. Continent-wide incentive withdrawalsold 76,600 units, 133.9% more than in 2024. What makes its success somewhat surprising is that it is neither a crossover nor particularly affordable.
In Germany, pricing starts at €54,100 for the flat-roof version and €54,900 for the long-roof wagon. The base model has a single 286 hp motor driving the rear wheels and accelerates to 62 mph (100 km/h) in 6.5 seconds. The dual-motor GTX starts at €63,265 and produces 340bhp, reducing acceleration to 5.1 seconds and features a slightly larger battery with a usable capacity of 86kWh (up from 77kWh in the base model).
The pick of the range is the mid-level Pro S model with a single motor and large battery, giving it a WLTP range of 440 miles (708 km), making it one of the longest-range electric cars on the continent.
It is the best-selling electric car in Germany and Europe as well, although its popularity is likely to be challenged The Zeekr 7GT arrives this summerany It offers more luxury for similar moneyIt looks better and ships faster than anything else available on the continent today.
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By all accounts, including Our areaThe ID.7 is a very good car with many strengths. But it operates in a market friendlier to sedans than the United States.
Volkswagen plans to bring it to the United States in 2024 But she changed her mindciting the “continuously challenging electric vehicle climate” as the reason. What VW didn’t say was that it didn’t trust the ID.7 to sell in a market that favored crossovers and no longer had a $7,500 federal tax credit to sweeten the deal. New tariffs on European-made cars probably didn’t help its cause either.
Volkswagen’s EV sales in Europe last year amounted to 247,900 models, thanks to the continued success of the ID.3, ID.4 and ID.5 models, although Volkswagen is anticipating its own new model. Identification card. Polo to cause a sensation when it arrives this spring. As its name suggests, it’s a €25,000 electric Polo, but it also incorporates a lot of what VW has learned in making electric cars over the past decade, which is particularly evident inside, where it’s built More physical controls than any previous ID model.
Europeans have shown interest in purchasing small electric hatchbacks.Renault 5 It was the third best-selling electric vehicle in Europe for most of last year – and VW wants to tap into this segment with the Polo EV. If that doesn’t live up to the manufacturer’s expectations, it is also launching an equivalent model, which looks just like the ID. The Polo moves away from the quirky styling of previous ID cars, so it looks more like an electric T-Cross.
Meanwhile, the VW Group’s best-selling electric vehicles do not come from Germany. that it Al-Ruq Produced by its Czech subsidiary Skoda. The Elroq was the second best-selling electric vehicle on the continent in 2025, after the Tesla Model Y (and even overtook Tesla in October, according to Clean Technica). Volkswagen has no equivalent for this model, which is smaller than the ID.4 but larger than the ID. Cross, and it seems like a missed opportunity to not have a participant in this size segment.
Identity. Polo and Identification card. He crosses They’re not the only new additions to Volkswagen’s electric range this year. The manufacturer will offer significantly updated versions of the successful ID.3 and ID.4 They will look more similar to their combustion equationsGolf and Tiguan. Its interiors are expected to receive an overhaul as well, with VW adding physical controls and finally ditching the touch-sensitive chipsets that no one liked.
This would leave the ID.7 as the last example of the original vision and slightly left field for ID models in terms of their exterior design and interior functionality. But it has been on sale since August 2023, so it will also receive a mid-life update soon, which will likely bring a similar set of changes as those expected for the smaller ID cars.
If VW makes the car look like a traditional model, its popularity could increase.
