Pure-electric BMW 5 Series and X1 confirmed
German car-maker announces all-electric sedan and SUV as part of sweeping product overhaulBMW has announced it will offer a battery-powered version of the 5 Series large sedan and X1 compact SUV as part of what it describes as a radical shakeup of its product plans.
Originally, it was thought both pure-electric variants were off the menu, but that's now changed following high-level decisions designed to lower BMW's average vehicle emissions.
In total, BMW will now have 25 electrified vehicles on the road by 2023 – with half of that number being pure EVs.
Despite announcing the electric BMW 5 Series and X1 are coming, there's not yet a launch date for either model. Instead, BMW announced that "in 10 years, the goal is to have a total of more than seven million electrified BMW Group vehicles on the roads — around two thirds of them with a fully-electric drive train".
The addition of more EVs in the range will help the German car-maker satisfy EU law-makers' demands to lower CO2 emissions levels by 37.5 per cent between 2021 and 2030.
Car-makers like BMW have already managed to slash the CO2 emissions of its vehicles by 40 per cent since 2007.
Next up for launch in the pure-electric BMW portfolio are the iX3 SUV, iNext SUV and i4 sedan.
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