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At this year's still ongoing Frankfurt Motor Show, several giants of the automotive industry joined the electric race. The largest newcomer of them all is the Volkswagen group, which introduced the ID.3 for its leading brand and the Taycan for Porsche.
Others, like BMW, are still locked in what looks like a waiting pattern, but they don't plan to take the upcoming onslaught laying down.
For a while now BMW has said it's planning to release 25 electrified cars (half of them fully electric) by the middle of the next decade. More recently, the deadline has been moved to 2023.
But even two years before that target, the number of electrified BMW cars on the roads should be of around 1 million, said the company's chairman Oliver Zipse in Frankfurt.
“By the end of 2021, we aim to have a total of one million electrified vehicles on the roads,” he stated.
“We are already right at the forefront of electromobility. No manufacturer has delivered more electrified cars to customers in Germany so far this year than the BMW Group. In Norway, three out of every four new BMW Group vehicles sold have an electrified drive train."
The range of electrified cars is set to include hydrogen-powered vehicles. In Frankfurt, the carmaker showed the i Hydrogen NEXT, an X5-based SUV that should spawn the first production hydrogen car in 2022.
As for the markets where it plans to make an impact, BMW bets heavily on China, where it predicts that by 2030, fifty percent of all new vehicle registrations will be electric cars. In Europe and the U.S. on the other hand, the percentage is expected to be half that.
Presently, BMW has only one important electric car on the market, the i3. Next year, the MINI electric will join the party, followed by the Ix3 SUV.
Others, like BMW, are still locked in what looks like a waiting pattern, but they don't plan to take the upcoming onslaught laying down.
For a while now BMW has said it's planning to release 25 electrified cars (half of them fully electric) by the middle of the next decade. More recently, the deadline has been moved to 2023.
But even two years before that target, the number of electrified BMW cars on the roads should be of around 1 million, said the company's chairman Oliver Zipse in Frankfurt.
“By the end of 2021, we aim to have a total of one million electrified vehicles on the roads,” he stated.
“We are already right at the forefront of electromobility. No manufacturer has delivered more electrified cars to customers in Germany so far this year than the BMW Group. In Norway, three out of every four new BMW Group vehicles sold have an electrified drive train."
The range of electrified cars is set to include hydrogen-powered vehicles. In Frankfurt, the carmaker showed the i Hydrogen NEXT, an X5-based SUV that should spawn the first production hydrogen car in 2022.
As for the markets where it plans to make an impact, BMW bets heavily on China, where it predicts that by 2030, fifty percent of all new vehicle registrations will be electric cars. In Europe and the U.S. on the other hand, the percentage is expected to be half that.
Presently, BMW has only one important electric car on the market, the i3. Next year, the MINI electric will join the party, followed by the Ix3 SUV.
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