{"id":75100,"date":"2024-08-01T06:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75100"},"modified":"2024-08-01T06:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:23:42","slug":"i4-best-selling-electric-bmw-h1-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75100","title":{"rendered":"The i4 Is BMW’s Best-Selling EV So Far In 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

The growth rate of EV popularity might be slowing down across the automotive industry, but not in BMW\u2019s case. It shipped 179,554 cars without a combustion engine in the first six months of the year. It\u2019s a substantial increase of 34.1% compared to the January-June 2023 period. Once again, the i4 was the firm\u2019s best-selling EV.<\/p>\n

The fully electric 4 Series Gran Coupe has received a Life Cycle Impulse but production didn\u2019t start until July. It means BMW is gearing up for an even better second half of the year now that the refreshed i4<\/a> is out. The German luxury brand doesn\u2019t provide a breakdown of EV sales but it does say the i4 enjoyed a double-digit growth rate compared to the first half of 2023.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, one in every five X1 crossovers sold through June this year was an iX1. The same can be said about the 7 Series since the i7 represented 20% of shipments. It\u2019s not all sunshine and rainbows since the iX suffered a 12.2% decline, with deliveries dropping to 18,582 units. However, the large electric SUV is about to go through an LCI<\/a> that should (theoretically)<\/em> boost sales.<\/p>\n

As a whole, the Group delivered 190,614 fully electric BMWs, MINIs, and Rolls-Royces in H1 2024. It\u2019s an increase of 24.6% over the same period of last year. EVs now account for 15.7% of total deliveries, a notable improvement over the 12.6% share achieved in the first half of 2023. Taking into account the 78,443 plug-in hybrids sold, electrified vehicles were 22.2% of the total volume. That\u2019s up two percent compared to the previous January-June timeframe.<\/p>\n

Not only is the iX getting a mid-cycle update, but the iX2 and i5 Touring have hit the market. That should further help BMW improve its all-electric sales. Elsewhere, the M5 Sedan is now a plug-in hybrid for the first time ever, and so is the M5 Touring<\/a> debuting this month. The novelties should help the Group bolster sales of electrified vehicles, further fueled by the new MINI family.<\/p>\n

Source: BMW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The growth rate of EV popularity might be slowing down across the automotive industry, but not in BMW\u2019s case. It shipped 179,554 cars without a combustion engine in the first six months of the year. It\u2019s a substantial increase of 34.1% compared to the January-June 2023 period. Once again, the i4 was the firm\u2019s best-selling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}