German luxury carmarker Mercedes-Benz has posted improved sales in the second quarter: Compared to the same period last year, sales increased by 6% to 515,700 vehicles, the carmaker announced in Stuttgart on Tuesday, reported dpa.
Business picked up strongly, especially on the domestic market. Mercedes-Benz said it sold 58,600 cars in Germany in the second quarter, a 23% increase.
A total of 157,100 vehicles landed on the European market.
Asia remained the carmaker's most important market, with sales of 239,200 cars, most of which — 183,600 cars — were sold in China.
With an increase of 3%, business in the North American market — to which Mercedes counts the United States, Canada and Mexico — increased only slightly. Mercedes sold 98,800 cars there.
Mercedes saw a particularly strong boost with its all-electric vehicles. Sales of pure electric cars rose by 123% to 56,300 units.
Six months into this year, sales stood at nearly 1.02 million vehicles, an increase of 5% compared to the same period last year.
The proportion of fully electric vehicles was 102,600 units, Mercedes-Benz said, meaning e-cars made up a little more than a 10th of total sales.
By 2030, Mercedes wants to be able to sell only fully electric cars wherever market conditions allow.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
