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BMW aims for 20% of its vehicles to be electric by 2023 -paper

Published 12/27/2020, 09:03 AM
Updated 12/27/2020, 09:05 AM
© Reuters. A BMW electric car is seen during the E.ON annual shareholders meeting in Essen

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German luxury carmaker BMW is planning to step up its production of electric vehicles, Chief Executive Oliver Zipse told German daily Augsburger Allgemeine.

"We are significantly increasing the number of electric vehicles. Between 2021 and 2023, we will build a quarter of a million more electric cars than originally planned", Zipse told the newspaper's Monday edition according to a pre-released version.

BMW wants roughly every fifth car it sells to be powered by an electric engine by 2023, Zipse said, compared to about 8% this year.

The manager also reiterated his call to speed up the expansion of charging infrastructure.

© Reuters. A BMW electric car is seen during the E.ON annual shareholders meeting in Essen

"15,000 private and about 1,300 public charging points would have to be put into operation every week as of today. Unfortunately, we are a long way from that", he told the paper.

Latest comments

Bye bye Tesla
2023?...i thought Tesla had the market cornered for 10 more years lol.
Charging stations can be built. However, it is not the main issue. Mass migration from traditional to electric vehicles would require huge increase in electricity output. It is questionable whether inept western establishment is capable to deliver this increase. So far it indulges in simple replacement of coal plants with wind turbines. It is totally inadequate, it does not increase overall electricity output.
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