Volkswagen on Friday said that a slide in sales accelerated in the second quarter, as the crisis-hit German auto group reportedly considers cutting up to 100,000 jobs worldwide.
Overall vehicle deliveries fell almost nine percent in the April-June period from a year earlier thanks to plunging demand in China, VW said.
Sales had fallen just four percent in the first quarter.
"The situation in China remains challenging, and we were unable to escape a clearly declining overall market," said VW executive Marco Schubert in a statement.
This was "despite initial positive momentum from our newly introduced, locally developed electric vehicles there," he added.
