Photo: MINI
Over the past year, the majority of automakers set 2025 as the target date for the full rollout of electrified vehicles. A while back so did BMW, who on Tuesday (June 25) moved the deadline two years closer, for 2023.
On Tuesday the carmaker’s headquarters in Munich hosts #NEXTGen, a corporate event meant to act as a preview of things to come from Bavaria. Alongside the presentation of exciting concepts like the Vision M Next or Vision DC Roadster, a remapping of the carmaker’s plans for the future was announced.
As per BMW, the new target year for the rollout of electric vehicles is 2023. By then, 25 vehicles powered to some extent by electricity should be on the road.
To support their launch BMW bets on the doubling of sales in the segment between this year and 2021, and expects the numbers to jump by 30 percent per year by the middle of the next decade.
“We are moving up a gear in the transformation towards sustainable mobility, thereby making our company fit for the future: over the past two years, we have consistently taken numerous decisions that we are now bringing to the roads,” said in a statement Harald Krüger, the company’s chairman of the board.
"We will offer 25 electrified vehicles already in 2023 – two years earlier than originally planned. We expect to see a steep growth curve towards 2025: Sales of our electrified vehicles should increase by an average of 30 percent every year.”
For the moment the carmaker did not say what are the models that will get an electric powertrain. There are some already in the works (the iX3 or the electric MINI) but the scope of the plan goes far beyond these two models.
Chances are most of the cars currently being sold by the group will get electrified. For instance, the #NEXTGen is the place where the carmaker showed an all-electric 5 Series. Described as an experimental EV, the car might just be a preview of things to come.
As per BMW, the new target year for the rollout of electric vehicles is 2023. By then, 25 vehicles powered to some extent by electricity should be on the road.
To support their launch BMW bets on the doubling of sales in the segment between this year and 2021, and expects the numbers to jump by 30 percent per year by the middle of the next decade.
“We are moving up a gear in the transformation towards sustainable mobility, thereby making our company fit for the future: over the past two years, we have consistently taken numerous decisions that we are now bringing to the roads,” said in a statement Harald Krüger, the company’s chairman of the board.
"We will offer 25 electrified vehicles already in 2023 – two years earlier than originally planned. We expect to see a steep growth curve towards 2025: Sales of our electrified vehicles should increase by an average of 30 percent every year.”
For the moment the carmaker did not say what are the models that will get an electric powertrain. There are some already in the works (the iX3 or the electric MINI) but the scope of the plan goes far beyond these two models.
Chances are most of the cars currently being sold by the group will get electrified. For instance, the #NEXTGen is the place where the carmaker showed an all-electric 5 Series. Described as an experimental EV, the car might just be a preview of things to come.
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