Announcing its electrification strategy, BMW Group said that by 2025, 15 – 25% of sales is expected from the electrified vehicles.
In the coming years, full-electric or plug-in hybrid drivetrain will be offered in addition to the combustion engine. Beyond 2020, the company’s next generation vehicle architecture will enable further fully-electric vehicles.
The Group announced that there’ll be a new battery-electric 3 door Mini along with a choice of petrol, diesel, and plug-in hybrid variants. This fully electric car will go into production in 2019. The electric Mini’s electric drivetrain will be built at the BMW Group’s e-mobility centre at Plants Dingolfing and Landshut in Bavaria before being integrated into the car at Plant Oxford, which is the main production location for the Mini 3 door model.
Oliver Zipse, BMW AG Management Board member for Production said, “BMW Group Plants Dingolfing and Landshut play a leading role within our global production network as the company’s global competence centre for electric mobility. Our adaptable production system is innovative and able to react rapidly to changing customer demand. If required, we can increase production of electric drivetrain motor components quickly and efficiently, in line with market developments.”
The company said that in future, the production system will create structures that enable production facilities to build models with a combustion engine, plug-in hybrid or fully electric drive train at the same time.
The BMW Group currently produces electrified models at ten plants worldwide. Since 2013, all the significant elements of the electric drivetrain for these vehicles come from the company’s plants in Dingolfing and Landshut. Dingolfing additionally builds the plug-in hybrid versions of the BMW 5 Series and the BMW 7 Series and from 2021, it will build the BMW iNext. The Group has invested a total of more than 100 million euros in electro-mobility at the Dingolfing site to date, with investment continuing as the range of electrified vehicles further expands.
In 2018, the BMW i8 Roadster will become the newest member of the BMW i family. The all-electric X3 has been announced for 2020, and the iNext is due in 2021.
The company has committed to selling 100,000 electrified vehicles in 2017 and will have a total of 200,000 electrified vehicles on the roads by the end of the year.
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