VDA

Borrowed from German VDA (“German Association of the Automotive Industry”).

VDA

1. Initialism of Verband der Automobilindustrie (“Association of the Automotive Industry”).
   • 2023 February 3, Benjamin Wehrmann, “E-car sales plummet in Germany following subsidy cut”, in Clean Energy Wire‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 March 2023, retrieved 3 May 2023:

     Registrations of new electric vehicles collapsed in Germany following cuts in buyers' premiums at the beginning of the year. Registrations for battery electric vehicles dropped about 83 percent to 18,100 in January from 104,300 in December, when many people rushed to receive the full subsidy, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). The share of e-cars fell to 15 percent in January from more than 55 percent in December, while total car registrations dropped three percent, car industry association VDA said. The government decided in mid-2022 to reduce support payments for new e-cars, arguing they had become increasingly attractive for buyers even without support payments. Last year, e-car buyers received up 6,000 euros from the state when buying a new vehicle, plus up to 3,000 euros from the car manufacturers themselves.

VDA (uncountable)

1. (automotive) A standard for measuring the capacity of a car's boot or trunk.
   • 2021 December, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 55, column 2:

     There's enough space for five passengers and 461 litres (VDA) of cargo space[.]

• Verband der Automobilindustrie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

VDA m (proper noun, strong, genitive VDAs)

1. initialism of Verband der Automobilindustrie (“Association of the Automotive Industry”), an interest group of the German automobile industry.