Volkswagen has ended the stop-sale order for its ID.4 electric crossover and is restarting U.S. production. The automaker aims to regain the ID.4's position as a top-selling electric vehicle.
Now that 2024 is officially behind us, we're getting a clearer picture of who was up and who was down in the electric vehicle sales race. Volkswagen , unfortunately, did not have the strongest ending to last year with U.S. sales of the electric ID.4 crossover being down 94% in the fourth quarter and down 55% overall since 2023—but you can chalk a lot of that up to the fact that the ID.4 hasn't even been on sale for months. Now, however, Volkswagen 's national nightmare appears to be over.
The automaker announced Friday that the ID.4's stop-sale order has been lifted and that U.S. dealers are clear to start selling them again. Moreover, U.S. production of the ID.4 is set to resume soon as well, 'with the aim of re-instating the ID.4 to its prior position as one of the best-selling electric vehicles in the U.S. and Canada,' VW officials said in a news release. And VW clearly wants to make up for lost time. 'To celebrate the cars coming back onto the market, Volkswagen will be making some highly competitive lease offers on ID.4s, making what was one of the most affordable electric compact SUVs even more attainable,' the automaker added. The past few months have indeed been tough for the ID.4, once a groundbreaking crossover and one of the earliest Tesla Model Y-style electric competitors from a so-called 'traditional' automaker. In late September, ID.4 sales and then production were halted due to a faulty electronic door-opening mechanism that was said to cause the doors to open unexpectedly. About 100,000 ID.4s were initially recalled. The move impacted 2021-24 ID.4s and all four of their door handles. Evidently, getting the replacement parts in was a challenge for VW. Parts didn't begin shipping to dealers until just before Christmas, Automotive News reporte
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