The company expects that the situation in the supply of semiconductors will gradually relax in the second half of this year. The year before, the company delivered over a million cars. It was 19.1 percent less than in 2019, when it delivered 1,242,800 vehicles. The decrease was also due to a coronavirus pandemic.
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In most markets, the company has seen a decline in the number of cars delivered. In China, for example, it has delivered 71,200 cars to customers. This corresponds to a decrease of 58.8 percent. On the contrary, in India, Škoda Auto has significantly improved after the launch of the Kushaq model, which was developed especially for this market in 2021. It delivered 22,800 cars to customers there, up 108.9 percent year-on-year.
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In Western Europe, the company delivered 409,000 cars to its customers in 2021, a decrease of 5.9 percent compared to the previous year. In Germany, its largest market, Škoda recorded 136,800 deliveries to customers last year, 15.4 percent less than in the previous year.
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In Central Europe, Škoda Auto delivered 164,100 cars last year, down 9.8 percent year on year. In the domestic Czech market, deliveries to customers fell by four percent to 79,900 vehicles between January and December 2021. In Eastern Europe without Russia, the carmaker delivered 35,800 cars to customers, 9.2 percent less than in 2020. In Russia, 90,400 delivered cars represent a decrease of 4.4 percent compared to the previous year.
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The best-selling model was the Škoda Octavia. However, the number of delivered cars fell by 22 percent year on year to 200,800 units. The second most delivered car was the Škoda Kamiq, where there was a decrease of 6.1 percent to 120,700 units. Third was the Škoda Karoq (-13.2 percent to 119,200 units). The new fully electric Enyaq iV was purchased by 44,700 customers worldwide last year.
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