BMW Group announces next electrification steps

The BMW Group has revealed that the new battery-electric MINI will go into production in 2019, adding a full electric drivetrain to the MINI range.

Available in the 3-door Hatch version, the drivetrain will be built at the Group’s e-mobility centre at Plants Dingolfing and Landshut in Bavaria before being integrated into the car at Plant Oxford, the main production location for the MINI 3-door Hatch.

The BMW Group currently produces electrified models at ten plants worldwide. By 2025, it expects electrified vehicles to account for between 15-25 per cent of sales, and is preparing production facilities to build models with a combustion engine, plug-in hybrid or fully electric drive train at the same time.

In 2018, the BMW i8 Roadster join BMW’s i family, with the all-electric X3 announced for 2020, and the BMW iNEXT due in 2021.

It has committed to selling 100,000 EVs in 2017 and plans to have a total of 200,000 on the roads by the end of the year.