On Friday, the BMW Group announced 2019 annual report, the Group’s annual revenue for the first time more than 100 billion euros, reaching 104.21 billion euros. Among them, the fourth quarter of BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce delivered a total of 665,803, Group revenue rose to 29.366 billion euros, BMW created the highest record ever revenue quarter.
new energy automobile, 2019, the Group sold a total of 145,815, it has sold a total of 500,000 electric vehicles. BMW Group Chairman Qi Pu policy said it plans to 2021 vehicles sold in Europe, the percentage of 25 new energy vehicles; in 2025 this proportion will increase to 1/3, 2030 continued to increase to 50 percentage. To 2023, the BMW Group will launch 25 new energy vehicles, half of them pure electric vehicle.
specific aspects of the implementation by the end of 2021, the BMW Group will provide five pure electric vehicle. In addition to continued growth in sales over the past six years, the BMW i3, pure electric MINI SE models have also been put into operation by the end of 2019 in Oxford, England plant; this year, BMW iX3 will be put into operation in Shenyang, China; 2021, BMW iNEXT will also be produced in Dingolfing plant in Germany, BMW i4 production plant in Munich. After three models will be equipped with the fifth generation BMW eDrive electric drive technology. Unfortunately, in April this year BMW i8 will be officially discontinued.
Over the past year, in order to protect the battery and supply of raw materials, BMW invested a total of 10.74 billion euros for the purchase of related issues, and to deepen cooperation with additional procurement Ningde age, and with Samsung SDI signed a long-term supply contract, to ensure parts supply battery power. This year, the BMW Group will directly lithium, cobalt direct purchase, Ningde era for the direct supply of raw materials and Samsung SDI, to ensure that it meets all the criteria.
talent, in 2019, the BMW Group invested 370 million euros in staff training and career development in the world, has about 46,000 people received training electrification, up one-third of the total number of employees. Currently, the BMW Group continued broad strokesIT professionals and technical personnel, full software development, digital, automatic driving talent pool in the field of electric vehicles as well as its international production networks, help “ACES new four modernizations” transformation.