BMW reports increased sales of electrified vehicles despite COVID-19

As expected, BMW Group sales figures for the first six months of this year were impacted by the effects of the temporary closure of retail outlets worldwide.

The company delivered 23.0% less vehicles compared to last year at a total of 962,575 premium BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles to customers worldwide in the first half-year, with 218,876 automobiles sold in June 2020.

Despite the trend of vehicle sales moving downwards, in the first half of the year, a total of 61,652 electrified BMW and MINI vehicles were handed over to customers, an increase of 3.4% compared to last year.

The BMW Group began early with the systematic electrification of its vehicle portfolio. The BMW Group already offers plug-in hybrid models in all relevant vehicle segments and occupies a leading role in Germany and worldwide.

Against this background, the company welcomes Germany's economic package and expects to benefit from this stimulus, especially through incentivisation of electrified vehicles. Production of the fully-electric BMW iX3 will begin in a few months.

Next year, electrification of the model line-up continues with the fully-electric BMW i4 and the BMW iNEXT. The BMW Group aims to have a total of 25 electrified models on the roads by 2023 - more than half of them fully electric.