The BMW Group, together with BMW and Mini, reported 90,844 car gross sales in the USA in the course of the first quarter of 2024 (up 1.2% year-over-year). The general progress was accompanied by a strong improve in all-electric automobile gross sales.
In Q1, BMW’s battery electrical car (EV) gross sales within the U.S. amounted to 10,713, 63% greater than a yr in the past. The EV share of the model’s complete quantity improved to 12.7%, in comparison with 8.0% in Q1 2023.
BMW EV gross sales surges
In 2023, BMW offered within the U.S. greater than 45,000 all-electric vehicles, in addition to greater than 25,000 plug-in hybrids for a complete of properly over 70,000 rechargeable autos. The whole plug-in automobile quantity tripled and accounts for 19.5% of the overall gross sales.
BMW’s EV lineup contains i4, i5, i7, and iX fashions. Based on the corporate, iX gross sales amounted to 2,945, which leaves 7,768 for the opposite EVs.
The German producer doesn’t report particular person gross sales numbers for the opposite EVs, as a result of they’re counted along with internal-combustion engine equivalents (4 Sequence, 5 Sequence, and seven Sequence). An attention-grabbing exception is the retired i3, which famous an odd single sale in Q1.
BMW BEV gross sales in Q1’2024 (YOY change):
BMW iX: 2,945 (up 25%) different: 7,768 Whole: 10,713 (up 63%) and 12.7% share
Sadly, the numbers for the Mini model aren’t out there.
* some 2022 information (Q1 and Q2) estimated
For reference, in 2023, the BMW model offered within the U.S. over 45,000 absolutely electrical autos (virtually thrice greater than in 2022), which was 12.5% of the overall quantity.
BMW BEV gross sales in Q1-This fall’2023 (YOY change):
BMW i4: N/A BMW i5: N/A BMW i7: N/A BMW iX: 17,301 (up 205%)different (i4, i5, i7): 28,116 Whole: 45,417 (up 191%) and 12.5% share
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Sadly, plug-in hybrid gross sales weren’t reported. BMW presents a number of PHEVs: X5 xDrive50e, BMW 330e, BMW 750e, and BMW XM. The brand new 550e will start arriving in showrooms in the direction of the tip of this yr.
The principle query for the close to future is whether or not BMW will be capable to proceed to shortly improve EV gross sales in 2024. The three-digit progress charge, primarily based on the low base of 2022, is already behind us.