FILE PHOTO: BMW i8 is shown at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, USA, November 20, 2019. REUTERS / Lucy Nicholson
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – BMW (BMWG.DE) will offer an all-electric 5-series as part of the product’s overhaul that was unveiled on Monday when the German automaker seeks to reduce vehicle emissions during production and on the road.
“In ten years, the goal is to have a total of more than seven million BMW Group electrified vehicles on the road, about two-thirds of them with an all-electric drive train,” the automaker said Monday.
Automakers have been putting pressure on electric cars since European lawmakers in December 2018 ordered a cut in carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles by 37.5% by 2030 compared to 2021 levels. This will come later. of a 40% emission cut between 2007 and 2021.
Starting next year, BMW said it will offer five fully electric cars: the BMW i3, MINI Cooper SE, BMW iX3, BMW iNEXT and BMW i4. In total, BMW will have 25 electrified models on the roads by 2023, half of them fully electric.
BMW said it will also offer a fully electric 5-series, but Chief Executive Oliver Zipse declined to give a release date.
BMW said its administrative compensation will be more closely aligned with meeting climate targets and that carbon emissions from production and sites will be reduced by 80% per vehicle.
Report by Edward Taylor; Editing by Michelle Martin
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