BMW wants to double sales of electric vehicles in 2021 | Car News

BMW has introduced it aims to double its income of all-electric powered vehicles about the future 12 months. Regrettably, we never actually know how numerous all-electric powered vehicles the enterprise offered in 2020, but we do know that last 12 months it offered 193,000 designs that have been electrified in some variety or other (meaning hybrids of all varieties and electric powered).

The aim guiding all this is of program to comply with the requirements remaining established be a variety of governmental businesses, but also to capture up with Tesla. BMW is aiming for a 50 p.c improve in income of partly or absolutely electric powered designs by 2021.

Translated, this would mean the maker promoting approximately three hundred,000 designs running on electricity (in portion or in whole) for the duration of the present calendar 12 months. In comparison, Tesla offered almost 500,000 vehicles in 2020.

The aim is noble and could look rather bold. But it ought to be remembered, without the need of wanting to choose just about anything away from BMW, that income have been down all over the place in 2020 thanks to the pandemic. It will hence be less difficult to see climbing income figures in 2021.

Still, nevertheless, it is an bold objective the automaker has established for alone.

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At the moment, the BMW Group makes thirteen electric powered designs that are either absolutely electric powered or plug-in hybrids. These are offered in seventy four markets.

BMW stated last week that its worldwide income of electric powered-powered vehicles increased by 31.eight p.c in 2020 and accounted for fifteen p.c of its income in Europe.

By 2023, the German automaker aims to approximately double its variety of electrified vehicles to 25 designs. Much more than 50 % will be absolutely electric powered, it suggests.