German e-car production up 86 pct in 2021: Destatis

BERLIN, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Germany produced 86 percent more purely electric vehicles in 2021 than a year earlier and 268 percent more than in 2019, the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Thursday.

The approximately 328,000 purely electrically powered cars produced last year in the country were worth 13.7 billion euros (14.5 billion U.S. dollars), it said.