BMW Group announced sales of electric vehicles in the first nine months of this year have exceeded sales for the entire previous year.
The German automaker, whose North American manufacturing facility is in Spartanburg County, stated that electric vehicle sales worldwide topped the 10,000 mark in September for the first time in a single month.
“We are pleased to see the ongoing, strong sales development of our unrivaled range of electrified vehicles,” Ian Robertson, BMW AG management board member for sales, said in a statement to an English daily. “This year we’ve already sold more electrified vehicles than in the whole of last year and we are well on track to deliver our target of 100,000 by year-end.”
In September, 10,786 electric vehicles were sold, a 50 percent increase over September 2016. Year-to-date, BMW Group reported 68,687 electric vehicles sold, a 64 percent increase from the previous year-to-date total.
BMW Manufacturing recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of announcing Spartanburg as the site for its North America manufacturing plant. The company announced its new X3 compact crossover will be manufactured in Spartanburg along with current X3, X4, X5 and X6 models.
The X5 xdrive40e electric vehicle is produced at BMW’s Spartanburg plant.
