BMW completed 2022 sturdy as This fall gross sales elevated 9.4% vs This fall 2021. Nonetheless provide points constrained the model and whole 12 months 2022 gross sales have been down barely by 1.3% vs 2021. Nonetheless that’s simply a part of the story. BMW’s electrical autos noticed large features for the 12 months, particularly within the forth quarter.
Additionally massive for BMWNA have been the US constructed, Sports activities Exercise Automobiles from Plant Spartanburg. In whole they accounted for 60% of all BMWNA gross sales.
Official Information: BMW NA Gross sales End Sturdy However Down For the 12 months
In March 2022, the absolutely electrical BMW iX Sports activities Exercise Automobile and BMW i4 Gran Coupe started arriving at U.S. dealerships. Within the 9 months that adopted, gross sales of the all-new electrical autos elevated steadily as stock ranges improved. A 3rd absolutely electrical mannequin, the BMW i7 Sedan, went on sale in late November.
Within the fourth quarter alone BMW offered 8,689 electrical autos, surpassing the totals achieved within the earlier three quarters mixed. For the complete 12 months 2022, BMW offered 15,584 absolutely electrical autos within the U.S., accounting for roughly 4.7% of whole U.S. gross sales.
Along with the absolutely electrical BMW iX, BMW i4 and BMW i7, the corporate’s electrified lineup within the U.S. will broaden when the plug-in hybrid electrical BMW XM Sports activities Exercise Automobile arrives in showrooms this quarter. BMW already affords plug-in hybrid electrical variants of a few of its hottest fashions together with the BMW X5 xDrive45e, BMW 330e and BMW 530e.
“With three absolutely electrical BMW autos and a number of other plug-in variants now obtainable at U.S. dealerships, we’re firmly on the street to electrification, providing our clients the entire efficiency, know-how, luxurious, and high quality that BMW is thought for – now additionally in an emissions free package deal,” stated Sebastian Mackensen, President and CEO, BMW of North America. “On the similar time, I’d like to acknowledge the pivotal position that our seller community and Plant Spartanburg proceed to play in our gross sales success within the U.S.”
Constructed within the U.S., Bought within the U.S.
Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina constructed simply over 60% of the BMW autos offered within the U.S. in 2022 and continues to be a predominant driver of the corporate’s success. Regardless of lingering manufacturing challenges, the plant achieved its second highest annual output final 12 months whereas additionally including the all-new BMW XM to its mannequin lineup.