BMW vehicles which have an electric motor and battery are now approximately 1 out of every 16 BMW USA passenger car sales (6.4% of such sales). The sales include BMW i3, BMW i8 and BMW 330e models.
The BMW X5 xDrive 40e was not included in this calculation since it falls under BMW’s light trucks category — it accounts for 4.3% of that category’s sales. Overall, that means plug-in cars accounted for 5.55% of all BMW brand sales in the US in November. BMW, Nissan, and GM are often identified as the Big Auto companies most focused on advancing electric cars in the US. However, it turns out that Ford is the only automaker with an electric car split of ~6% in November (5.91%). That is, unless you count Smart separate from Daimler and include it as a major automaker.
BMW has been leading the industry (among conventional “Big Auto” companies), and this percentage split of total sales helps to show that. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the arrival of the Chevy Bolt, Tesla Model 3, an updated BMW i3, etc.
