BMW to have over seven million electrified cars by 2030

With a 10-year plan for sustainability, the BMW Group is underscoring its commitment to the goals of the Paris climate agreement, the main focus being on the expansion of electric mobility.

According to the IHS Markit New Registrations July 2020 Report, the BMW and MINI brands featuring all-electric and plug-in hybrid drive systems respectively already account for approximately 13.3% of all new registrations Europe-wide.

This corresponds to a 1.5-fold increase of the average share of all brands, which is around 8%. The company expects this figure to rise to a quarter by 2021, to a third by 2025 and to 50% by 2030.

Vehicles of the BMW and MINI brands featuring electrified drive systems are now offered in 74 markets worldwide, where more than 500,000 electrified vehicles were sold by 2019. By the end of 2021, this figure will probably rise to over a million.

In spite of pandemic-related restrictions, more vehicles from the BMW Group were sold during the first half of 2020 than in the corresponding previous-year period.

The BMW Group sustainability goals aim to put more than seven million vehicles with electrified drive systems on the road worldwide by 2030, with two thirds of them being all-electric variants. As a result of the massive expansion of electric mobility, emissions produced by BMW Group vehicles per kilometre driven will be reduced by around 40% by the year 2030.