Renault in Germany number one in electric cars

The French carmaker Renault has depended in Germany on electric vehicles, the local competitors.

In 2017 Renault with the models Twizy, Zoe and Kangoo ZE sold for the first time over 5000 cars, said Renault Germany boss Uwe Hochgeschurtz on Wednesday in Dusseldorf. "This is a strong increase of 31 percent compared to the previous year." The market share for battery-powered vehicles at the end of November at 17.3 percent. "This makes Renault the number one in Germany for electric vehicles."

Bestseller was the Zoe, which has a driving range of 300 kilometers. Hochgeschurtz announced that Renault 2018 for the first time bring an electrically powered 3.5-tonner on the market. Customers from the field of logistics and Internet trade would have signaled strong interest. According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), a total of 25,056 electric vehicles were registered in Germany in 2017, twice as many as in the previous year.

The French sold last year in Germany in total with the brands Renault and Dacia 224,000 vehicles, an increase of 12.9 percent. The market share climbed to 6.04 percent from 5.49 percent in 2016. Car sales in Germany rose in 2017 for the fourth time in a row. A total of 3.44 million passenger cars were registered in Germany, about three percent more than in the previous year.

Reuters.com