Just before closing the curtains on 2021, BMW Group celebrated the delivery of its one-millionth electrified vehicle. Pieter Nota, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Customer, Brands, and Sales handed over the milestone vehicle, a BMW iX xDrive40 to its owner at BMW Welt on 6 December.

“The delivery of our one-millionth electrified vehicle marks a milestone in our transformation – and we already have the next one in our sights: We aim to break through the two-million mark in just two years,” said Nota. “Thanks to our steadily growing product range, we are setting ourselves ambitious sales targets, in particular for fully-electric vehicles: In 2022, we aim to double this year’s sales. By 2025 the BMW Group will have delivered around two million fully-electric vehicles to customers. We expect at least one out of every two BMW Group vehicles sold to be fully electric by 2030,” Nota continued.

Around 70% of EVs sold so far were hybrids, board member Pieter Nota said in a roundtable with journalists, adding that the company believed hybrid models would continue to play an important role in particular for customers without easy access to chargers.

BMW has long stood for investing in a range of technologies rather than focusing purely on battery-electric cars to reduce emissions and opposes flat-out bans on purchasing combustion engine cars emphasizing the fact that a lack of charging infrastructure is a major barrier to quicker adoption of electric vehicles by consumers. In an effort to reduce carbon emissions, the carmaker aims for at least 50% of global sales to be fully electric by 2030.