Munich. Shortly before the end of the year, the BMW
Group celebrated the delivery of its one-millionth electrified
vehicle: Pieter Nota, member of the Board of
Management of BMW AG responsible for Customer, Brands and Sales handed
over the milestone vehicle, a BMW iX xDrive40 (Power consumption in
kWh/100 km: 22.5-19.3 WLTP), to its owner at BMW Welt on 6 December.
The company included a special bonus with the delivery: The customer
not only received the keys for his new vehicle, but also a BMW
Wallbox, including installation, to enable safe and convenient home
charging, as well as a credit for public Europe-wide charging with BMW Charging.
“The delivery of our one-millionth electrified vehicle marks a
milestone in our transformation – and we already have the next one in
our sights: We aim to break through the two-million mark in just two
years,” said Nota. “Thanks to our steadily growing
product range, we are setting ourselves ambitious sales targets, in
particular for fully-electric vehicles: In 2022, we aim to double this
year’s sales. By 2025 the BMW Group will have delivered around two
million fully-electric vehicles to customers. We expect at least one
out of every two BMW Group vehicles sold to be fully electric by
2030,” Nota continued.
The BMW Group released two key innovation flagships, the BMW iX and
the BMW i4, onto the market in mid-November. Both models are being
very well received by customers worldwide – as reflected in new orders
from around the globe.
Over the next year, the BMW Group will expand its electrified product
line-up to include fully-electric versions of the BMW 7 Series and BMW
X1. The high-volume BMW 5 Series will be added to the electric
portfolio in 2023. The successor to the MINI Countryman and the
all-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre will follow. By 2023, the company
will already have at least one fully-electric model on the roads in
about 90 percent of its current market segments. Over the next ten
years or so, the BMW Group plans to release a total of about ten
million fully-electric vehicles onto the roads.
The Neue Klasse, which is uncompromisingly geared towards electric
drive trains, will make a significant contribution to BMW Group sales
volumes from the middle of the decade.
The MINI product range will already be exclusively all-electric by
the early 2030s and Rolls-Royce will be an all-electric brand from
2030 on. All future new models from BMW Motorrad in the field of urban
mobility will also be fully electric.
The successful ramp-up of electromobility will depend on swift and
comprehensive expansion of charging infrastructure. The BMW Group is
making a vital contribution to this. “Electromobility needs holistic
thinking and implementation. That is why we don’t just offer our
customers highly attractive electrified cars; we also make sure
charging is easy and convenient. Our commitment spans the entire value
chain: from compelling products and services through strategic
investments, all the way to building our own company charging
infrastructure,” says Dr Andreas Aumann, head of
Strategic Product Management at the BMW Group.
BMW Charging and MINI Charging provide customers with access to one
of Europe’s largest charging networks, made up of more than 250,000
charging points. With the “Active” tariff from BMW and MINI Charging,
customers can charge at an attractive market-specific fixed rate that
ensures full transparency. The BMW Group also offers various home
charging solutions with its wallboxes. With the pan-European
high-power charging network IONITY, in which the existing shareholders
and new investor BlackRock additionally invest a total of 700 million
euros for network expansion, the roaming partner aggregator Hubject
and the strategic mobility provider Digital Charging Solutions GmbH,
the BMW Group holds a stake in three companies that will play a key
role in the continued ramp-up of electromobility. With more than 5,000
charging points, the BMW Group also operates one of Germany’s largest
company charging networks.
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With its four brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad, the BMW
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motorcycles and also provides premium financial and mobility services.
The BMW Group production network comprises 31 production and assembly
facilities in 15 countries; the company has a global sales network in
more than 140 countries.
In 2020, the BMW Group sold over 2.3 million passenger vehicles and
more than 169,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in the
financial year 2020 was € 5.222 billion on revenues amounting to €
98.990 billion. As of 31 December 2020, the BMW Group had a workforce
of 120,726 employees.
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thinking and responsible action. The company set its course for the
future early on and is making sustainability and resource efficiency
the focus of the company’s strategic direction – from the supply
chain, through production, to the end of the use phase, for all its products.
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