The company confirmed that Mercedes-Benz’s transformation will continue:
Hybrid and pure electric cars already account for 20 percent of total sales.
In the first nine months of the year, sales of battery electric vehicles from Mercedes-Benz passenger cars nearly doubled, an increase of 97 percent. Car sales in the luxury car category increased by 6 percent during the same period. Overall, Mercedes-Benz sold 1,529,800 vehicles in the first three quarters, up 2 percent from the previous year.
Sales of Mercedes-Benz cars have developed differently in each region.
- in Europe This quarter, sales increased by 12 percent, to 164,200 cars, and in the first nine months of this year, they increased by 8 percent, to 485,200 cars.
- the sales In Asia They were at the previous year’s level of 736,300 cars, and in the third quarter sales fell 10 percent to 249,400. Who is this In China Annual sales stopped at 570,600 cars in the first nine months of this year, while in the third quarter they decreased by 12 percent to 196,000 cars.
- In North America Sales fell by 3% to 248,800 cars in the nine months to the end of September, while in the third quarter they fell by 13% to 74,900 cars. Of that, the number of cars sold in the United States fell 3 percent to 216,700 in the first nine months ending at the end of September, while annual sales in the third quarter fell 15 percent to 64,000.
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