BMW looks forward to enhance sales of electric cars by two-thirds in 2017 to 100,000 automobiles as the high-end car manufacturer is providing more battery-powered designs, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported, mentioning President Harald Krueger.
Munich-based BMW expects to enhance its deliveries of fully electrical and hybrid automobiles to around 60,000 units this year, Krueger stated in an interview released on Monday. Sales of battery-powered BMW models have amounted to about 100,000 automobiles from that 2013, he included.
“Electric mobility will come, but need is not skyrocketing at the moment,” the paper mentioned Krueger as saying.
To improve sales, BMW is likewise increasing the battery range of its i3 city car by 50% this year. The i3, BMW’s only completely battery-powered vehicle, sold just 25,000 units in 2015.
The automaker, that has fallen behind Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz in worldwide luxury-car sales rankings, wants to enhance the share of electric vehicles and hybrid models to in between 15 percent and 25 percent of sales by 2025, the newspaper included.
