VW has utterly failed to deliver EVs people actually want to buy. They are expensive, have lower quality interiors compared to their combustion brethren, lag behind in infotainment/connectivity compared to other EVs (especially Chinese ones, which is one market VW was betting heavily on) and in terms of range and charging speed they're also behind their competitors.
At least here in Germany it seems like they padded their order books with deliveries to car sharing, rental and taxi companies, looking at how many ID3s and ID4s are present there. It wouldn't surprise me if they offered massive discounts in hopes of generating demand from private buyers, but that didn't work out and the fleet market is simply saturated now.
VW has utterly failed to deliver EVs people actually want to buy. They are expensive, have lower quality interiors compared to their combustion brethren, lag behind in infotainment/connectivity compared to other EVs (especially Chinese ones, which is one market VW was betting heavily on) and in terms of range and charging speed they're also behind their competitors. At least here in Germany it seems like they padded their order books with deliveries to car sharing, rental and taxi companies, looking at how many ID3s and ID4s are present there. It wouldn't surprise me if they offered massive discounts in hopes of generating demand from private buyers, but that didn't work out and the fleet market is simply saturated now.