BERLIN—Mercedes-Benz delivered 2.05 million passenger cars in 2022, the company said on Tuesday, down 1 percent on the previous year as the carmaker felt the impact of COVID-19 measures and bottlenecks.
Still, fourth-quarter sales rose 17 percent as logistics and supply chain bottlenecks eased, and battery-electric sales grew 124 percent over the course of the year to 117,800 units.
Demand for the carmaker’s high-end Maybach vehicles was particularly strong, with 2022 sales up 37 percent year-on-year driven by higher sales in China, Japan, Korea, and the Middle East.
The only key region to see a year-on-year fall in sales was China, with a 1 percent drop, according to Tuesday’s data….