News Digest Item
15 Nov 2016

“BMW eyes 100,000 electric car sales in 2017”

Reuters/Süddeutsche Zeitung

BMW wants to boost e-car sales by two-thirds next year to 100,000 vehicles, according to a Reuters report based on a Süddeutsche Zeitung interview with BMW CEO Harald Krüger. The luxury automaker is offering more battery-powered models and expects to increase deliveries of fully electric and hybrid vehicles to around 60,000 units this year, Krüger said.

Read the report in English here.

For background, read the CLEW factsheet Early e-car starter BMW plans new mobility sprint.

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