The BMW Group is sticking with its goal of having electric cars account for more than 50% of annual sales by 2030. It’s an ambitious plan, considering EVs held a 17.4% share of total shipments…
Even though Euro 7 regulations expected to come into effect in 2025 will ultimately be far more relaxed than the initial proposal, there’s no going back from the EV onslaught. BMW is pressing ahead with…
Electric vehicles are expensive to develop and build but BMW is striving for profit parity in roughly two years. Chief financial officer, Walter Mertl, made the projection in a media roundtable, telling journalists EVs won’t…
BMW has made it crystal clear that it won’t abandon internal combustion engines anytime soon. However, it has an aggressive electric model rollout that is already paying off in many parts of the world. The…
Even before its unveil, there was very little doubt that the new BMW M2 is the last of its kind: gasoline-powered, rear-wheel drive and manual. We’ve said it before: with a 7 year cycle, it…
2021 was the best year ever for the BMW Group in terms of electric vehicle sales as the German conglomerate delivered 103,855 cars without combustion engines. The performance was particularly impressive when you factor in…
BMW’s electric journey kicked off at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich where two 1602 Elektro-Antrieb (Electric-Drive) sedans were on display looking virtually identical to their combustion-engined counterparts. However, gone was the ICE as the…
The “Neue Klasse” at BMW is celebrating a brilliant comeback. Today, BMW CEO Zipse revealed the “New Class” plans under which the company intends to group together particularly innovative models with electric drives in the…
The automotive industry was hit rather hard in 2020, with a lot of experts being concerned about the long-term impact of the Coronavirus lockdown. As numbers from accountants are coming in, we can now take…
BMW Group sales of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles decreased 22.6 percent in June 2019 versus the same period last year. Model changeover has limited the current BMW Group electrified lineup to five models including…
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