Germany is the European champion in electric car production
What the national soccer team still wants to become shortly, the e-car production in Germany already is: namely, the absolute leader in Europe. Last year, according to VDA, 1.27 million electric passenger cars (fully electric and plug-in hybrids) rolled off the German assembly lines, of which 955,000 were purely electric vehicles. This makes Germany the e-production hub of Europe: Nowhere in Europe were more e-cars produced, and this year the e-car production in Germany is expected to rise again.
Globally, Germany was thus the number 2 behind China in terms of e-car production. There is still potential in other European countries: The vice-European champion Spain produced 256,000 electrified cars, while third-placed France produced 225,000 (each including plug-in hybrids).
Patent World Champion
How innovative the industry is can be seen, for example, by looking at innovations in the field of electric drives. Here, Germany is even at the global forefront: Nearly every third patent (29%) in this field comes from German inventors. Following behind are Japan, China, the USA, and South Korea. The next European country, France, follows in 6th place with 5% (Source: IW Patent Database).
The overall market
Nowhere in Europe are more cars produced than in the car country Germany: In 2023, 4.1 million cars, including combustion engines, rolled off the production lines here—more than in second-place Spain (1.9 million) and third-place Czech Republic (1.4 million) combined. About three-quarters of the vehicles are sold outside of Germany (76%).
Germany also leads by a large margin in terms of trade value: In total, cars worth 164 billion euros were exported from Germany in 2023. Belgium is in second place with 39 billion euros, followed by Spain with 38 billion euros. The revenue of the entire German automotive industry, including suppliers, amounts to over 500 billion euros. In second place in 2022 was France with 142 billion euros, ahead of Italy, where 72 billion euros were generated.
In Germany, 780,000 employees work in companies of the German automotive industry. This makes the German automotive industry the largest employer within the European automotive industry (France 215,000, Poland 209,000 employees).
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