BMW 'ready' for mooted 2030 ICE ban

According to BMW CEO Oliver Zipse, the manufacturer will be ready for any proposed ban on internal combustion engine (ICE) cars from 2030 onwards with an offering of electric vehicles.

"We will be ICE-ban ready. If a region, a city, a country gets the idea of banning ICEs, we have an offering," Zipse told a conference in Nuertingen, near Stuttgart on Tuesday.

"The BMW Group is not worried about this. Whether it's a good idea is another question... but we will have an offering."

The EU has proposed an effective ban on fossil fuel cars from 2035 as part of a broader package of measures to combat global warming.  

BMW has not yet set a firm date for when it will discontinue all cars powered by combustion engines.