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MARCH 20, 2022

The all-electric BMW iX and i4 are the first BMWs with available 5G support via Personal eSIM. Personal eSIM allows a customer to add a BMW iX or i4 to an existing mobile phone plan, thus taking advantage of the vehicle’s 5G antenna and enabling an in-car WiFi hotspot. Digital Key Plus. eDrive Zones.

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JULY 1, 2022

The serial production of the BMW i3 has ended , some eight and a half years after it was launched. The BMW i3 (combined power consumption: 16.3 - 15.3 The BMW i3 (combined power consumption: 16.3 - 15.3 For the BMW Group Plant Leipzig, the farewell to the BMW i3 is linked to the start of a new chapter in electric mobility.

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JULY 3, 2020

The BMW Group has opened the Competence Center for E-Drive Production at its largest European manufacturing location in Dingolfing. Having produced electric powertrain components in Dingolfing since 2013, the BMW Group is now expanding its capacity significantly. —Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG Oliver Zipse.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The BMW Group continues to adapt its production structures to growing demand for fully and partially electrified vehicles. China is of high importance to the BMW Group, both as a market and as a location for production and innovation. There are already a total of 75,000 electrified BMW models on China’s roads today.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2023

BMW Group’s Regensburg location has produced its one-millionth vehicle, a BMW iX1 battery electric vehicle (BEV) in Alpine White. The BMW X1 is BMW’s smallest Sports Activity Vehicle and became the first fully-electric model produced at the BMW Group location in Regensburg in November 2022.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The BMW Group has delivered half a million electrified cars to customers worldwide so far. The company aims to have one million electrified vehicles on the road within two years, said Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG. The key of this lies in making the drive train substantially more efficient, BMW said.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The BMW Group and Great Wall Motor have launched a new joint venture—Spotlight Automotive Limited—and are building a joint plant in China, where the BMW Group will produce future fully-electric models of its MINI brand. The BMW Group is already a leading supplier of electrified vehicles.

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JUNE 25, 2019

The BMW Group is accelerating its electromobility expansion program, with the 25 electrified models to be introduced by 2023, two years earlier than the initial 2025 target. With flexible vehicle architectures for fully-electric, plug-in hybrid and combustion engine drive trains, the company is able to respond quickly to changing conditions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

The BMW Group will release the new BMW iX3 EV ( earlier post )onto the market by the end of 2020. The first of these electric vehicles will be delivered to customers by the end of the year. This is the first time we have completed the entire homologation process for a fully electric model in China and Europe at the same time.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The BMW Group is investing around €200 million in its Munich plant in preparation for series production of the BMW i4 electric vehicle, which will be manufactured at the company’s headquarters starting in 2021. The integration of the BMW i4 requires extensive measures, especially in body shop and vehicle assembly.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Global sales of BMW Group electrified models (fully-electric and plug-in hybrid) increased by 10.1% in September year-on-year to 16,035 units—due in part to the new BMW 330e. Source: BMW, IHS Markit New Registrations BEV+PHEV combined 01/2019 - 08/2019. Vehicle Type: Passenger Cars. to 4,148 units.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2023

From 2017, the second-generation MINI Countryman featured the MINI Cooper SE Countryman ALL4 as the first plug-in hybrid MINI model to offer an additional 65 kW/88 hp electric motor on the rear axle. The new generation of the largest MINI model is fully electric and locally emission-free.

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JULY 28, 2020

The BMW Group is making sustainability and resource efficiency central to the company’s strategic direction. I firmly believe the fight against climate change and how we use resources will decide the future of our society—and of the BMW Group. As a premium car company, it is our ambition to lead the way in sustainability.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

In the fourth quarter 2022, BMW sold 8,689 electric vehicles, surpassing the totals achieved in the previous three quarters combined. For the full year 2022, BMW sold 15,584 fully electric vehicles in the US, accounting for approximately 4.7% For the full year 2022, BMW brand sales decreased slightly by 1.3%

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JUNE 14, 2019

In May, cumulated BMW Group electrified sales topped the 400,000 mark with a total of 406,756 fully-electric and plug-in hybrid models delivered to customers since the BMW i3 first went on sale in November 2013. Overall sales of BMW Group electrified vehicles grew by 9.8%

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

The BMW Group will increase e-component production capacity at its manufacturing base in Leipzig with another eight production lines by 2024. The battery cells they will process will be manufactured by external suppliers working to BMW Group specifications. —Markus Fallböhmer, Head of Engine at E-Drive Production at BMW AG.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Overall sales of BMW Group Electrified vehicles increased by 1.4% By the end of this year, the number of BMW Group electrified vehicles on the roads around the world will total more than half a million. —Pieter Nota, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Sales and Brand BMW. Source: BMW.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Sales of BMW Group electrified vehicles worldwide were up 8.6% to 14,182 units in October, due to availability of the new BMW 330e and the BMW X5 xDrive45e. The BMW i brand, with the BMW i3 and BMW i8, continued its positive sales trend over the first 10 months of the year, with an increase of +19.3%

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The BMW Group will invest $1.7 billion in its US operations, including $1 billion to prepare for the production of electric vehicles at the company’s Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina, and $700 million to build a new high-voltage battery assembly facility in nearby Woodruff, SC. BMW Group Plant Spartanburg. Earlier post.)The

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The BMW Group is expanding production capacity and increasing its staff at the Competence Center for E-Drive Production in Dingolfing faster than originally planned. The number of electric motors required will also increase significantly. The number of electric motors required will also increase significantly.

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APRIL 4, 2023

In the first quarter of 2023, BMW brand sales in the US totaled 82,466 vehicles, an 11.9% BMW sold 6,588 battery electric vehicles, which accounts for 8% of total U.S. In total, electrified vehicles (combined battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric), accounted for nearly 17% of US sales in Q1.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The BMW Group is deepening its existing business relationships with battery cell manufacturers CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. billion for the BMW Group and €2.8 billion for the Chinese production site of the BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. billion for the BMW Group and €2.8 Limited) and Samsung SDI.

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APRIL 11, 2024

BMW delivered its one-millionth fully electric vehicle (EV) in the first quarter of this year, celebrating another milestone in its electrified journey. The BMW Group is continuing on its BEV growth path. The legacy automaker promised to continue ramping up its electric vehicle lineup in 2024 despite “a volatile market.”

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Green Car Reports

MAY 16, 2024

And BMW holds to its EV targets as other automakers waver. BMW is sticking to the EV targets it announced several years ago—50% fully electric sales by 2030, not including hybrids or plug-in. Ford recalls Maverick Hybrid and Escape Hybrid models for a software issue. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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JULY 16, 2020

The BMW Group has signed a long-term supply contract worth €2 billion for battery cells with the Swedish company Northvolt. —Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG. —Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. —Andreas Wendt.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

The new BMW 330e plug-in hybrid features the latest generation of BMW eDrive technology paired with a four-cylinder gasoline engine. Making its debut appearance in a BMW, the standard-fitted XtraBoost raises the system output of the plug-in hybrid to a maximum 215 kW/292 hp. liters per 100km (123.7 – 146.9

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 10, 2023

The BMW Group delivered a total of 88,289 fully-electric BMW and MINI vehicles to customers in the second quarter of 2023 – and once again succeeded in more than doubling its BEV sales from the same period of last year (+117.5%).

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A wide range of plug-in models—from Hyundai and BMW—are being recalled for potential fire risk. Karma prices its fully electric car. Tesla boosts range for much of its lineup. And Nikola could revert to a “base plan” that means no Badger. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The BMW Group is introducing its innovative eDrive Zones in another 20 European cities, including Copenhagen, Verona and Toulouse. A total of 138 cities in Europe are now benefiting from this technology; BMW expects to roll out the service in at least another 30 cities worldwide in the coming year. Pölten, Toulouse and Verona.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2023

BMW’s upcoming eigth generation of the 5 Series will offer all-electric and plug-in hybrid variants as well efficient gasoline and diesel engines with 48V mild hybrid technology. The all-electric BMW i4 M50 shows how BMW blends dynamic performance and electric mobility to perfection.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2021

“OK Boomer,” jeered BMW last November, in a social-media ad for its first fully electric SUV, the iX. It’s no surprise BMW faced a lot of backlash over the jab, as the Boomer generation made BMW what it is today. It was a reference to an already outdated meme that feels so last-decade now.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

The BMW Group and Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd. CBA) announced the early extension of the joint venture contract for BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) and the further deepening of the existing successful collaboration. —Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The BMW Group Plant in Dingolfing in Lower Bavaria will increase the number of Dingolfing-based jobs in the production of e-drive components several times over in the next few years to a total of up to 2,000. Almost 30,000 plug-in hybrids of the BMW 5 Series and 7 Series rolled off the assembly lines at the Dingolfing plant.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2018

Seven months after opening its battery factory in China ( earlier post ), the BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) joint venture has laid the foundation for a comprehensive expansion of the plant. Starting in 2020, the BMW iX3 will be built at the neighboring BBA plant Dadong. The BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) joint venture.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 26, 2019

Just eight weeks ago, at its annual shareholders meeting, BMW announced that it will build 12 new all-electric cars by 2025, along with 13 plug-in hybrid models.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

The BMW Group has delivered more than 100,000 electrified vehicles to customers worldwide in 2017, as promised at the beginning of the year. The BMW Group selected this glowing symbol to represent the technological change taking place in mobility. —Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG.

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 11, 2022

The BMW Group sold a total of 75,891 fully-electric BMW and MINI vehicles worldwide in the first half of 2022 – more than doubling its all-electric sales compared to the same period of last year (+110.3%).

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