Two years in the past, BMW delivered its 500,000th electrified automobile (together with EVs and hybrids), promising to ship a million items in two years. Now, the corporate has announced that it is met that purpose by delivering its one millionth electrified automobile, an iX xDrive40 SUV (proven above), to a buyer in Europe. It’s additionally promising to double that tally to 2 million by subsequent yr, whereas delivering two million totally electrical EVs by 2025. 

BMW was a pioneer within the pure electrical class with the i3 and i8 EVs, however has been gradual to ramp up its choices since then. As such, nearly all of its electrified gross sales have been hybrid, fairly than pure EVs. (The time period “electrified” usually encompasses each PHEVs, gentle hybrids and EVs.) Between January and September of 2021, BMW reportedly bought 59,688 EVs and 171,887 plug-in hybrid automobiles worldwide, in response to CleanTechnica. In 2020, it bought 192,646 plug-in automobiles, together with PHEVs and EVs, InsideEVs reported. 

This yr, the corporate launched the i4 sedan and iX SUV pure electrical fashions into the US market, however they solely went on sale final month. It additionally presents four PHEVs, together with variations of the 7, X5, 3 and 5 fashions. Over the subsequent yr, BMW will add the totally electrical BMW 7 collection and X1, plus the high-volume BMW 5 collection by 2023. It plans to have “about ten million fully-electric vehicles on the road” by 2031 or so.