The BMW Group Sold More Electric Cars Than Ever In 2025

Electrical automobiles was little greater than a footnote in BMW Group’s gross sales charts over the previous decade. It’s secure to say that lots has modified for the reason that oddball i3 hatchback went on sale in 2013. Demand blossomed on the again of a product onslaught throughout the group’s three automotive manufacturers. The final 5 years, specifically, have been nothing in need of spectacular, with annual deliveries rising tenfold.

Let’s have a look at the numbers. The BMW Group bought 44,541 vehicles and not using a combustion engine in 2020. Final 12 months, BMW, MINI, and Rolls-Royce delivered 442,072 automobiles that had been totally electrical. Unsurprisingly, the share of EVs in whole gross sales has skyrocketed, climbing from 1.9% in 2020 to 18% final 12 months.

This surge comes simply forward of the arrival of what’s arguably an important electrical BMW to this point: the iX3. Early indicators recommend the primary fashionable Neue Klasse mannequin might be a business hit, with demand in Europe already overlaying most of this 12 months’s manufacturing run. The lineup will increase additional in 2026 with two key fashions, the i3 and iX5. As well as, the i7 is about to obtain a nip and tuck, full with an ALPINA twist.

One other fascinating statistic emerges as soon as plug-in hybrids are factored in. In 2020, the mixed share of PHEVs and EVs in whole gross sales stood at simply 8.3%. Final 12 months, that determine jumped to 26%, after the BMW Group bought 642,087 automobiles pairing a combustion engine with an electrical motor. In different phrases, a couple of in 4 vehicles bought was electrified.

It’s price noting that BMW is the one model within the group nonetheless providing plug-in hybrids. MINI dropped the Countryman PHEV with the present era of the crossover. As for Rolls-Royce, it has by no means supplied one and is unlikely to take action. For the British marque, it’s V12 or electrical, and nothing in between.

Wanting forward, the BMW Group is aiming for electrical automobiles to account for half of its annual gross sales by 2030. To assist that ambition, the i3 and iX5 might be adopted by a number of further EVs. Whereas the i3 Touring, iX4, and iX6 have but to be formally introduced, they’re anticipated to reach inside the subsequent few years.

Extra importantly from a quantity perspective, the i1 hatchback and i2 sedan are reportedly slated to launch towards the tip of the last decade. As soon as MINI fashions additionally profit from the Neue Klasse know-how and probably swap to rear-wheel drive, demand for the extra reasonably priced EVs ought to speed up even additional.