Mercedes sells more electric cars again

Mercedes' electric car sales have fallen year-on-year for six consecutive quarters. The Stuttgart-based company has now reported growth again for the third quarter of 2025, thanks in part to the new CLA. Things are also looking up for vans.

Since the first quarter of 2024, Mercedes-Benz has only seen declining electric car sales. That has now changed: between the beginning of July and the end of September, the manufacturer sold 51,200 BEVs across the group: nine per cent more than in Q3 2024 and as much as 22 per cent more than in the second quarter. In the current year, the Mercedes-Benz Group has sold 138,600 electric vehicles, which is still down seven per cent due to the weak first half of the year.

In the passenger car business, Mercedes-Benz Cars, 42,600 BEVs were recorded in the quarterly balance sheet. Here, too, this represents 22 per cent growth compared to the second quarter, but the same level as in the previous year: Mercedes-Benz Cars reported 42,500 electric cars for the third quarter of 2024. At that time, this represented a decline of almost a third for the year as a whole, but now it is at least a stable result. However, Mercedes remains below last year's figures for the current year: 118,400 electric Mercedes cars represent a decline of 13 per cent.