Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The BMW Group will launch a new era of e-mobility from 2025 with the models of its NEUE KLASSE ( earlier post )— using newly-developed cylindrical battery cells optimized for the new architecture for the first time. —Frank Weber, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Development.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

The BMW Group posted year-on-year sales growth of 8.4% last year, with a total of 2,521,525 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles delivered to customers worldwide. BMW sales reached a new all-time high of 2,213,795 units (+9.1%) last year, with the brand leading the global premium segment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The BMW Group presented the first BMW iX5 Hydrogen vehicles in a pilot fleet that will go into service this year. This active driving experience will therefore be the first chance for people not involved in the development process to gain a direct impression of what the BMW iX5 Hydrogen has to offer. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

The BMW Group will release the new BMW iX3 EV ( earlier post )onto the market by the end of 2020. The first of these electric vehicles will be delivered to customers by the end of the year. —Arno Keller, head of Development BMW iX3. The electric car is based on the globally successful BMW X3.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The BMW Group will invest $1.7 billion in its US operations, including $1 billion to prepare for the production of electric vehicles at the company’s Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina, and $700 million to build a new high-voltage battery assembly facility in nearby Woodruff, SC. BMW Group Plant Spartanburg. Earlier post.)The

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2022

The BMW Group is launching a unique project that will see cars maneuver around production without requiring a driver. To make this happen, the BMW Group has been collaborating with Seoul Robotics from South Korea and Embotech from Switzerland. —BMW Group project manager Sascha Andree. It doesn’t use sensors in the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Overall sales of BMW Group Electrified vehicles increased by 1.4% By the end of this year, the number of BMW Group electrified vehicles on the roads around the world will total more than half a million. —Pieter Nota, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Sales and Brand BMW. Source: BMW.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

To support its accelerated expansion of e-mobility in the coming years, the BMW Group will source lithium from a second leading supplier, US-based Livent. Livent will supply the lithium directly to the BMW Group’s battery cell manufacturers from 2022 on. The value of the multi-year contract will total around €285 million.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2023

The BMW Group broke ground for a new high-voltage battery assembly plant in Woodruff, South Carolina. The BMW Group Plant Woodruff will produce sixth-generation batteries to supply fully electric vehicles at nearby BMW Manufacturing in Spartanburg. Visualization of the BMW Group Plant Woodruff. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The BMW Group has delivered half a million electrified cars to customers worldwide so far. The company aims to have one million electrified vehicles on the road within two years, said Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG. The key of this lies in making the drive train substantially more efficient, BMW said.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 23, 2024

Hyundai Motor Company’s brands, Hyundai and Kia, received an A- credit rating from S&P Global. “The upgrade to our global credit rating will likely lead to reduced capital financing costs. Hyundai and Kia’s previous S&P Global credit rating was BBB+.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Through its venture capital fund BMW i Ventures, the BMW Group has taken a stake in Colorado-based Jetti Resources. BMW’s goal is to foster responsible and resource-conserving copper extraction to address rising demand in a more sustainable way. The technology is already being deployed to great success at industrial scale.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The BMW Group intends to source aluminum with significantly reduced CO 2 emissions from Rio Tinto’s hydro-powered operations in Canada starting in 2024 and has signed a memorandum of understanding to this effect. In the supply chain of a mid-sized fully-electric vehicle around a quarter of the CO 2 emissions are attributable to aluminum.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The BMW Group is deepening its existing business relationships with battery cell manufacturers CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. billion for the BMW Group and €2.8 billion for the Chinese production site of the BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. billion for the BMW Group and €2.8 Limited) and Samsung SDI.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2020

The BMW Group is making sustainability and resource efficiency central to the company’s strategic direction. I firmly believe the fight against climate change and how we use resources will decide the future of our society—and of the BMW Group. As a premium car company, it is our ambition to lead the way in sustainability.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

The BMW Group has signed a long-term supply contract worth €2 billion for battery cells with the Swedish company Northvolt. —Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG. —Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. —Andreas Wendt.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

BMW Group will end its involvement in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship at the end of the coming season. BMW has consistently supported the Formula E project from the beginning, and has enjoyed victories and podiums with the BMW i Andretti Motorsport team. BMW Group has always used Formula E as a tech lab for production.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

During its current run, Leapmotor has brought five New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) to market, including the T03 city car and the C01, C10, C11, and C16 SUVs. The company offers all its models as both (BEV) and extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) variants, except the T03, which is fully electric only.

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Teslarati

APRIL 12, 2023

BMW has released its Q1 2023 sales report, showing that its EV sales are quickly overtaking its gas offerings. As one of Tesla’s chief competitors, BMW knows very well the risk of not electrifying its lineup, and luckily it is doing so at a record pace. This sales spike, a 112.3% Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 94% last month compared to July 2020, scoring 480,000 units (or 7.1% share of the overall auto market). That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever. In total, there […].

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Baua Electric

MAY 16, 2024

BMW still aims for about 50% global EV sales by the end of the decade, in line with a plan the automaker rolled out in 2021 , but still isn’t ready to declare an end date for internal combustion. But the exact cadence of the ramp-up will be determined by market trends, Zipse added.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The BMW Group has delivered more than 100,000 electrified vehicles to customers worldwide in 2017, as promised at the beginning of the year. The BMW Group selected this glowing symbol to represent the technological change taking place in mobility. —Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 30, 2021

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up an impressive 199% last month compared to May 2020, to some 442,000 units (or 6.6% share of the overall auto market). Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) jumped 190%, to some 295,000 registrations (or 4.4% That was the industry’s 3rd best month ever.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 4, 2024

By: Bloomberg | Updated on: 05 Jun 2024, 06:46 AM The five-seat Cadillac Optiq SUV is designed to appeal to younger buyers, who the brand says are key to cornering the luxury EV market. The five-seat Cadillac Optiq SUV is designed to appeal to younger buyers, who the brand says are key to cornering the luxury EV market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2017

The BMW Group announced that the new battery-electric MINI will be a variant of the brand’s core 3-door model. This fully electric car will go into production in 2019, increasing the choice of MINI powertrains to include gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines, a plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) and a battery electric vehicle.

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My Electric Car

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, experienced a significant increase in EV sales in January, with sales growing nearly 50% compared to the same month last year. In January alone, BYD sold 105,304 fully electric cars, marking a 48% increase from the 71,338 vehicles sold in the previous year.

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Drive EV

APRIL 6, 2021

Prices for the BMW i3 and BMW i3s have been reduced to ensure that customers can continue to benefit from the UK Government Plug-In Car Grant (PiCG) following the redefinition of the grant on 18 March 2021. On the road pricing before grant for the BMW i3 120Ah now starts at £33,805 and £34,805 for the sporty BMW i3s120Ah.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

The strategic group of investors consists of automotive venture capital from BMW i Ventures, Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Porsche Ventures—alongside Airbus Ventures, Generali, and existing investors—collectively adding new competencies to help fuel Bcomp’s growth. Starting with the iFE.20

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 114% in August 2021 compared to August 2020, scoring 516,000 units (or 7.7% share of the overall auto market). That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever, and expect September to be another record month.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Underlining the growing appetite of India’s uber-rich, British luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce doubled its sales volume in the world’s third-largest car market during 2023 and expects the growth momentum to continue in 2024 as well. “India is doing well. India is one of the highest-growing markets for Rolls-Royce.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

And it’s still ready to go 100% plug-in by then if the market demands it. “We We don’t want to chase BMW in building engines ,” said Björn Annwall, Volvo’s chief operating officer and deputy CEO. “We It’s not about cutting down the vision to become fully electric,” he added. Volvo currently has about 1.5%

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Baua Electric

JULY 17, 2024

The Korean luxury brand wants to bring hybrids to market as soon as possible. Genesis hybrids are coming ASAP Genesis has become a dark horse in the luxury electric vehicle market. In the US, Genesis had the second-highest EV share of total brand sales in Q2, behind Cadillac and BMW.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Swedish-Chinese brand had already pulled the S90 from the market earlier this summer. Like many brands, it has promised to prioritize all-electric vehicles under the assumption that they’ll make more money and be subject to less scrutiny from overzealous government regulators. It’s a similar story for our market.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2022

BMW’s iFACTORY production strategy defines the future orientation of plants and production technologies at the BMW Group and meets the challenges of the transformation to e-mobility. With our BMW iFACTORY, we are leading the way and setting new standards in flexibility, efficiency, sustainability and digitalization.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

Speaking on the sidelines of the 2023 annual conference in Ingolstadt on Tuesday, Konsbruck told Autocar that he knows that the Government of India wants to achieve 30 percent electric vehicle penetration for cars by 2030, but he believes that in the premium car market, EV penetration will be much higher at 50 percent by 2028.

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Baua Electric

JULY 10, 2024

Chinese Dominance In 2023, over 8 million electric cars were sold in China. According to market research firm TrendForce’s recent report from February this year, Chinese manufacturers hold three of the top five spots for global market share – with BYD at 17%, GAC Aion at 5.2% Henrik Fisker, Founder & CEO, Fisker Inc.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

Carrying the momentum into 2024 After selling a record 268,785 fully electric vehicles last year, Hyundai has no plans to slow down this year. Hyundai’s dedicated EVs, like the IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 6, are becoming best-sellers in key markets globally.

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