The BMW Group has already sold one million electric vehicles worldwide

The Bavarian company has just reached a new milestone in the transition towards electric mobility, having put one million electric vehicles on the market worldwide since the commercialisation of the i3 began in 2013. Sales of this type of vehicle by BMW have grown year after year since then. In the first three months of 2024, 82,700 electric vehicles from the BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce brands were delivered to their lucky new owners.

Precisely, one of those 82,700 electric vehicles delivered during the first quarter of the year had the honour of taking the number of electric vehicles delivered globally by the Bavarian firm into seven digits. However, the company has not wished to reveal which model it is nor in which country it was sold.

To get an idea of how much sales of BMW electric vehicles have grown in recent years, it is enough to say that the company needed almost four years, from November 2013 to October 2017, to put the first 100,000 units of the i3 on the market. A sales figure it is now able to achieve in about four months. Although, admittedly, not with a single model but with a wide range of electric vehicles.

The future looks promising

According to the company itself, demand for electric vehicles from the group’s brands is currently quite high. The BMW i4, iX3, iX1, iX, as well as the i7 are some of the models that are proving most popular with the public. BMW has also wanted to highlight the good reception of both the i5 and the iX2, although these models have reached the market very recently, so it will take some months for their sales volumes to peak.

The Bavarian firm has not provided sales data for electric vehicles broken down by brand. The truth is that the MINI brand is currently at the start of a definitive transition to the electric vehicle, with several models using this powertrain about to reach the market. This is the case of the Countryman, which will for the first time have an electric version. Sales of Rolls-Royce, on the other hand, as one might imagine, are a minority.

“Electric vehicle sales across the BMW Group continue to grow. With the delivery of the one-millionth electric vehicle since the launch of the BMW i3 on the market, we have reached an important milestone in our history, which confirms the good reception our vehicles with this powertrain are receiving.”