Last year, Germany exported more electric cars than it imported, the Federal Statistical Office announced.
Last year, 786 vehicles were exported compared to 446 imported from other countries, the Federal Bureau of Statistics announced.
With 36 billion euros, exports were also significantly ahead of imports, which totaled 14,1 billion euros, reports SEEbiz.
The most important importer was China with a share of 29 percent, ahead of Korea with slightly less than ten percent. Exports of purely electric cars grew by 58 percent during the year, significantly faster than imports, which grew by 23,5 percent.
Despite this, only one in four new cars exported from Germany had an electric drive, while the rest still had combustion engines.
German car companies produced 973 thousand e-cars (+59,9 percent) compared to around 2,4 million internal combustion engines (+7,9 percent).
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