BMW has purpose to have fun after reaching two main milestones. This 330e Touring in Portimao Blue, headed to a buyer within the UK, marks the three-millionth electrified car assembled on the Munich plant. The posh model can also be happy to announce it has delivered 1.5 million autos with out a combustion engine. This determine additionally consists of totally electrical fashions bought below the MINI and Rolls-Royce manufacturers.
The historic Munich plant is ready to transition solely to electrical car manufacturing by the tip of 2027. Consequently, the three Sequence with gasoline engines will now not be constructed there for the primary time in its historical past. Stories counsel BMW plans to provide the upcoming “G50” and its high-performance “G84” M3 variant in Dingolfing, although this has but to be formally confirmed.
Within the meantime, the present “G20” sedan will proceed to be produced in Munich till October 2026, whereas the ultimate “G21” Touring mannequin could possibly be constructed as late as February 2027. It stays unclear whether or not a next-generation 3 Sequence Touring, codenamed “G51,” is within the pipeline. What is definite is that the fully electric i3, set to debut subsequent 12 months, can be manufactured in Munich. Spy photographs point out it’ll intently resemble the upcoming gas-powered 3 Sequence, albeit with a shorter entrance finish. An i3 Touring additionally seems to be in growth. The electrical wagon appears extra more likely to enter manufacturing than a brand new 3 Sequence ICE wagon.
Forward of those new launches, BMW Group’s electrified car gross sales (PHEVs and EVs) rose by 28.5% within the first quarter of 2025, totaling 157,495 models. Totally electrical fashions noticed a 32.4% enhance, reaching 109,513 models. When accounting for plug-in hybrids, electrified autos made up 26.9% of all deliveries by means of March. EVs alone represented 18.7% of whole shipments within the first three months of the 12 months. Nonetheless, the Group goals for EVs to account for greater than 50% of deliveries by 2030. That can be troublesome to realize.
BMW’s electrical journey started 12 years in the past with the unique i3, which was produced in Leipzig. The i8 adopted months later from the identical web site because the model’s first plug-in hybrid.
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