Porsche managed to extend its world deliveries final 12 months by 2.6% regardless of worldwide provide chain points that crippled different carmakers in addition to gross sales of its first all-electric automotive.

The German sports activities automotive producer mentioned Thursday it delivered 309,884 autos to prospects final 12 months, up from 301,915 autos in 2021.

“The numerous challenges attributable to the battle in Ukraine, interrupted provide chains and the continuing semiconductor disaster have formed the previous 12 months and put us to the take a look at,” Detlev von Platen, Porsche’s head of gross sales and advertising, mentioned in a launch.

Luxurious car gross sales have fared higher than mainstream fashions amid excessive rates of interest and inflationary pressures. Extremely-luxury automakers Bentley and Rolls-Royce each reported report gross sales final 12 months.

Porsche’s U.S. gross sales outpaced an estimated 8% to 9% decline in total auto gross sales in 2022.

Main Porsche’s slight rise in gross sales final 12 months was a 13% enhance in abroad and rising markets, adopted by an uptick of 5.8% in Europe. Its gross sales in North America had been flat, and deliveries declined about 2% in China.

Porsche’s U.S. gross sales had been primarily degree for the 12 months, growing by simply 40 items to 70,065 autos. The biggest rise in gross sales was a 22.5% enhance within the Cayenne crossover. Most different fashions skilled notable declines, together with a roughly 23% drop in gross sales of Porsche’s all-electric Taycan to 7,271 items.

The carmaker mentioned the decline in Taycan gross sales, together with a 16% drop globally, was “attributable to provide chain bottlenecks and restricted element availability.”