At BMW, sales of electric cars are doing well

BMW held up. In 2024, the group’s sales of 100% electric cars increased by 13.5%, or 426,594 units. A nice tour de force in a complicated market.

Fully committed to electrification, BMW has not given up in 2024. While most German car manufacturers have seen their sales of electric cars decline, the Munich firm has held on. The group’s three brands delivered a total of 426,594 electric vehicles. An increase of 13.5% compared to 2023.

The share of electric cars reaches 17.4% at BMW

Here are the figures in detail: BMW registered 368,523 units (+ 11.6%), Mini also progressed with 56,181 electric cars sold (+ 24.3%) and finally Rolls-Royce delivered 1,890 copies of the Specter (+479.6%). Over the year as a whole, 100% electric cars now represent 17.4% of total sales.

If we include plug-in hybrid models, this share increases to 24.2% of the mix. Which makes 593,215 examples registered in 2024 (+ 4.8%). All engines combined, the German group delivered 2,450,804 vehicles (- 4%). Sales increased slightly in Europe and the United States, but declined in China.

BMW’s score on electric cars is particularly encouraging. Others like Mercedes, Volkswagen, Porsche or even Tesla, have not had the chance to see their sales progress. Deliveries of the Porsche Taycan, for example, collapsed by 49%.

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In volume terms, the BMW group is now doing better than Volkswagen (brand alone). The Wolfsburg firm did not deliver “ what » 383,100 electric cars in 2024. The arrival of the Neue Klasse range in 2025 could even help to strengthen BMW’s place among the European leaders in the electric field.