BERLIN—Mercedes-Benz sales fell sharply in the second quarter, hampered by supply problems and coronavirus-related lockdowns in China, the German carmaker said on Monday.
The automaker delivered 490,000 passenger cars from April to June, down 16 percent from the same period last year, it said.
For the first half of 2022, its Cars division saw a 16 percent decrease in sales, for a total of 998,000 deliveries.
Second-quarter sales slumped the most in China, the most important single market, falling 25 percent to 163,700 vehicles, the carmaker said.
Sales in the Asia region fell 20 percent, due mainly to lockdown measures, while sales in Europe were down 10 percent and North America saw a dip of 3 percent in the quarter….