BMW has sold two million electric cars, and Europe bought seven in ten of the ones it shifted last quarter
BMW has delivered its two millionth fully electric vehicle, an i5 M60 xDrive built at Dingolfing and handed to a customer in Spain. Europe accounted for 81,445 of the 116,807 battery-electric cars the group sold in the second quarter.
BMW has handed over its two millionth fully electric car. The i5 M60 xDrive was built at Dingolfing in Bavaria and delivered to a customer in Spain, BMW said in a statement.
The count runs back to 2013. Including plug-in hybrids, the group has delivered around 3.5 million electrified vehicles.
Recent growth is almost entirely European. Europe took 81,445 of the 116,807 battery-electric cars BMW sold in the second quarter, as electrive calculated from the group’s half-year figures.
That is seven in ten. The rest of the world, China and the United States included, accounted for roughly 35,000 cars between them.
The wider direction is down. Group deliveries of battery-electric...
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