Audi sells more electric cars in 2025 – another recall dampens the mood

The VW subsidiary Audi Experience light and shadow in the first quarter of 2025: While the global sales figures declined in total, the electric car area recorded a strong plus.

At the same time, a recall for Negative headlines from Ingolstadt -The most popular electrical vehicle in the brand, the Audi Q4 E-Ttron is affected.

With Audi, the electric car sales increases-total sales declines

Audi delivered 383,401 models worldwide in the first three months of the year – a minus of 3.4 percent compared to the previous year. The decline in China was particularly strong, where sales fell by 7 percent to 144,471 vehicles. As a reason, Audi gives the harder Competition on the Chinese market to. In Germany, on the other hand, Audi was able to grow by 4.8 percent and drop a total of 48,447 cars.

There is a clear ray of hope for the electric cars: The paragraph of pure Stromer rose by 30 percent worldwide to 46,371 vehicles. According to a message, Audi increasingly benefits from new models in the portfolio. Europe-and especially Germany-remains the most important market for Audi electric cars and made around three quarters of the deliveries.

Call back on the Audi Q4 Etron due to software problem

However, the quarterly result is overshadowed by a large recall. The Audi Q4 e-tronthe manufacturer’s currently selling electric car in Germany has to go to the workshop worldwide. In total, the callback affects 109,684 vehicles from the production years 2020 to 2023, including 22,099 in Germany.

The reason is a software error that can lead to the failure of the electrical parking brake under certain conditions. According to Audi, it is an « extremely rare scenario » in which several time factors have to meet within one second. Nevertheless, two incidents were reported to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA)-without personal injury.

At the end of 2024 the Ingolstadt residents had to be one Callback from hundreds of thousands of cars initiate.

Audi recall: software update in the best-selling E-car necessary

The affected Audi Q4 e-tron receive a software update that is intended to improve the function of the parking brake. The workshop visit takes about 30 minutes. Until then, drivers should pay attention to the control lamp in the cockpit when parking the vehicle – if they glowed red permanently, the parking brake is activated.

Last year, almost 108,000 units of this model were delivered to customers worldwide. Meanwhile, Audi wanted to hire export to the USA because of Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs. That could be after the youngest turn to the US President but have done.