volkswagen ag vwagy handed over 321600 allelectric vehicles bevs to customers in the first half of the year up 48 year over year around 68 of the groups bev deliveries were in its home region of europe followed by china with 19 and the usa with 9 the remaining 4 went to other markets in the usa deliveries increased by 76 to 29800 vehicles in china deliveries were around 2 below the previous years level at 62400 bevs dragged by the competitive market environment also read volkswagen kick starts autonomous driving test program in us in europe the automaker led the market in the bev segment with deliveries increasing by 68 to 217100 vehicles in view of the recent significant reduction in delivery times we expect this positive trend to continue in the coming months said hildegard wortmann member of the groups extended executive committee for sales in the second quarter deliveries increased by 53 to 180600 vehicles worldwide and the bev share of total deliveries rose to 77 following a lower first quarter 18 more bevs were handed over to customers in china in the second quarter than in the prioryear period price action vwagy shares were up by 052 to 1724 on thursday