BMW EV Sales Statistics 2026
By Axis Intelligence Research
Co-author: Aidan Jad, EV & Clean Energy | Last updated: September 21, 2026 | License: CC BY 4.0
BMW Group delivered 116,807 battery-electric vehicles in Q2 2026, and 81,445 of them — 69.7% — went to customers in Europe. A year earlier the European share was 53.2%. Axis Intelligence Research tracks that ratio as the Battery-Electric Geographic Concentration Index (BEV-GCI), and it moved 16.5 points in twelve months.
Quick Answer
BMW Group sold 442,059 BEVs in 2025 (17.9% of deliveries) and 204,295 in H1 2026, down 7.4% year-on-year. The half hides a reversal: Q1 fell 20.1%, Q2 rose 5.2% as the iX3 ramped. Axis Intelligence Research finds BMW’s BEV-GCI at 69.7 for Q2 2026 — nearly seven in ten BMW EVs now delivered in Europe — against a regional BEV-share spread of 25.2 points between Europe (31.3%) and the United States (6.1%). BMW handed over its two-millionth BEV in August 2026.
Key Findings
- BMW Group delivered 442,059 battery-electric vehicles in 2025, or 17.9% of total deliveries, according to the BMW Group Report 2025 published on 12 March 2026.
- Axis Intelligence Research measures BMW’s Battery-Electric Geographic Concentration Index at 69.7 for Q2 2026, up from 53.2 in Q2 2025.
- Axis Intelligence Research finds BMW’s Q2 2026 BEV volume splits to 81,445 units in Europe, 15,154 in the Asia-Pacific/Eastern Europe/Middle East/Africa region, 11,428 in China, 6,720 in the United States and roughly 2,060 across the Americas outside the US.
- BMW Group’s plug-in hybrid share of Chinese deliveries was 0.1 percentage points in Q2 2026 — under 250 cars — per the company’s Q2 2026 financial key information.
- BMW Group delivered its two-millionth fully electric vehicle in August 2026, a BMW i5 M60 xDrive built at Plant Dingolfing, roughly fourteen months after the 1.5-millionth.
How Many EVs Does BMW Sell Per Year?
The audited series runs from a standing start to a plateau in four years.
| Year | BEV deliveries | YoY change | Total deliveries | BEV share | Electrified share | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 103,854 | — | 2,521,514 | 4.1% | 13.0% | BMW Group Report 2025 |
| 2022 | 215,752 | +107.7% | 2,399,632 | 9.0% | 18.1% | BMW Group Report 2025 |
| 2023 | 375,716 | +74.1% | 2,554,183 | 14.7% | 22.2% | BMW Group Report 2025 |
| 2024 | 426,536 | +13.5% | 2,450,854 | 17.4% | 24.2% | BMW Group Report 2025 |
| 2025 | 442,059 | +3.6% | 2,463,681 | 17.9% | 26.1% | BMW Group Report 2025 |
BEV share column calculated by Axis Intelligence Research as BEV deliveries ÷ total deliveries. Electrified share (BEV + PHEV) as published. Source: BMW Group Report 2025, retrieved 20 September 2026.
Compound growth across 2021–2025 works out to 43.6% a year, which is the number a slide deck would show. It is also the least useful number on this page. The series is not a curve; it is a ramp that stopped. Two years produced 320,000 incremental BEVs. The last two produced 66,000.
There is a reconciliation worth stating plainly, because two different BMW documents give two different 2025 figures. The Annual Conference release of 12 March 2026 states 442,056 BEVs; the audited BMW Group Report 2025, published the same morning, states 442,059. For 2024 the gap is wider — 426,594 in the January 2025 release against 426,536 in the report. BMW labels delivery figures in press releases as provisional until the annual report lands. We use the report figures for annual rows and press-release figures for quarters, and we say which is which in every CSV row.
Aidan Jad, Axis Intelligence Research: Three units on 442,000 changes nothing about the market. It changes a great deal about how you cite. Anyone comparing a 2024 BMW page against a 2026 BMW page and finding different numbers is not looking at an error — they are looking at the gap between a sales announcement and an audited count. The discipline is to pick one basis and hold it across every row.
BMW EV Sales in 2026: The Quarterly Picture
| Period | BEV units | YoY | BEV share of deliveries | Total deliveries | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2026 | 87,458 | −20.1% | 15.5% | 565,748 | BMW Q1 2026 release |
| Q2 2026 | 116,807 | +5.2% | 19.8% | 590,962 | BMW Q2 2026 release |
| H1 2026 | 204,295 | −7.4% | 17.7% | 1,156,742 | BMW Q2 2026 release |
Sources: BMW Group Q1 2026 sales release (14 April 2026); BMW Group Q2/H1 2026 sales release (10 July 2026); BEV share percentages from BMW Group Q2 2026 financial key information (30 July 2026). Retrieved 20 September 2026.
The quarters do not sum to the half. 87,458 plus 116,807 is 204,265, and BMW reports 204,295 for H1 — a 30-unit restatement between provisional counts. We report both and flag the difference rather than silently picking one.
What the two quarters describe is a handover. Q1 was the trough of an old product cycle colliding with the removal of US purchase incentives and a Chinese subsidy reset; BEV volume fell more than a fifth while combustion demand held. Q2 was the first quarter with iX3 supply at scale. BEV share of group deliveries went from 15.5% to 19.8% in three months, which is not a demand signal so much as a production signal — the order bank was already there.
Where Does BMW Actually Sell Its Electric Cars?
BMW publishes regional delivery totals in its sales release and regional BEV penetration rates in its financial key information. It does not publish regional BEV units — except for Europe. Multiply the two and the map appears.
Axis Intelligence Research regional BEV reconstruction, Q2 2026
| Region | Total deliveries | BEV share | BEV units | Share of group BEV volume | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | 260,173 | 31.3% | 81,445 | 69.7% | BMW-published unit figure |
| Asia-Pacific / E. Europe / ME / Africa | 77,317 | 19.6% | 15,154 | 13.0% | Axis calculated |
| China | 117,815 | 9.7% | 11,428 | 9.8% | Axis calculated |
| United States | 110,169 | 6.1% | 6,720 | 5.8% | Axis calculated |
| Americas excluding US | 24,312 | ~8.5% | ~2,060 | 1.8% | Axis residual |
| Group total | 590,962 | 19.8% | 116,807 | 100% | BMW-published |
Formula: regional BEV units = regional deliveries × regional BEV share. Deliveries from the BMW Q2 2026 sales release; BEV shares from BMW’s Q2 2026 financial key information. Americas-ex-US is the residual after the four disclosed regions. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
Two checks say the reconstruction holds. Applying the same method to Europe returns 81,434 against BMW’s published 81,445 — an eleven-unit variance from BMW rounding its share to one decimal. And running the identical arithmetic on plug-in hybrids closes to within 1,940 units of the group PHEV figure, with the residual landing on the same Americas-ex-US bucket at a plausible 8.0%. Two independent drivetrains reconciling into the same gap is what a sound reconstruction looks like.
The Chinese line is the one nobody has written up. BMW’s Q2 2026 China BEV share was 9.7% and its electrified share 9.8%. The difference is one decimal point — under 250 plug-in hybrids in a market where BMW delivered 117,815 cars. In its largest single market, BMW’s plug-in hybrid business has effectively ceased to exist, squeezed out by domestic extended-range and PHEV products that arrive cheaper and with more usable electric range. Our China EV statistics page tracks that displacement from the market side.
Aidan Jad, Axis Intelligence Research: A 25.2-point spread between Europe and the US is not a marketing gap. It is a policy gap wearing a product costume. Same platform, same 800V architecture, same cell chemistry, two tax codes. Europe’s CO2 compliance framework prices the electron in; the US withdrew its credit and the mix collapsed within a quarter. Anyone modelling BMW’s 2027 electric volume is really modelling the difference between those two rulebooks.
The Axis BEV Geographic Concentration Index (BEV-GCI)
BEV-GCI measures what share of a carmaker’s global battery-electric volume is absorbed by its single largest sales region, expressed on a 0–100 scale. A reading of 100 means every EV goes to one region. It exists because unit growth and geographic breadth are different things, and a headline delivery number conceals which one you are looking at.
Formula: BEV-GCI = (BEV units in largest sales region ÷ global BEV units) × 100
Readings — BMW Group
| Period | Largest region | Region BEV units | Global BEV units | BEV-GCI | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2025 | Europe | 59,018 | 111,033 | 53.2 | Axis calculated |
| Q2 2026 | Europe | 81,445 | 116,807 | 69.7 | Axis calculated |
Inputs: Q2 2026 figures as published by BMW. Q2 2025 figures derived from BMW’s own stated growth rates — global 116,807 ÷ 1.052 = 111,033; Europe 81,445 ÷ 1.380 = 59,018. BMW’s Q2 2026 financial key information independently shows Q2 2025 BEV retail at 111k, corroborating the derivation. Snapshot as of 30 June 2026.
The reading rose 16.5 points in four quarters, and it rose for two reasons pulling in the same direction: Europe added 22,427 BEVs while the rest of the world subtracted. Global volume grew 5.2% in the quarter. Strip Europe out and non-European BEV volume fell from roughly 52,015 to 35,362 — a decline of 32%.
That is the finding a delivery headline cannot carry. “BMW EV sales up 5.2%” and “BMW’s non-European EV business shrank by a third” describe the same quarter.
Companion diagnostic — regional BEV-share spread. Highest regional BEV penetration minus lowest, Q2 2026: 31.3% (Europe) − 6.1% (United States) = 25.2 percentage points. On electrified vehicles overall the spread runs wider still, 43.7% in Europe against 9.8% in China, or 33.9 points.
What BEV-GCI does not capture: it is a volume ratio, not a profitability or exposure measure. A high reading is a description of where the cars go, not a verdict. A manufacturer concentrated in a market with strong regulatory pull and firm residuals is in a different position from one concentrated by default. BEV-GCI tells you the concentration exists; the CO2 framework and the order bank tell you whether it is load-bearing.
How Does BMW’s EV Share Compare With the European Market?
| Measure | H1 2026 | H1 2025 | Basis | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMW Group BEV share, Europe sales region | ~28% | not disclosed | Deliveries to customers | BMW, 27 Aug 2026 |
| EU new-car BEV market share | 20.7% | 15.6% | New registrations, EU27 | ACEA, 23 July 2026 |
| EU BEV registrations | 1,220,890 | 869,271 | Registrations | ACEA |
| BMW Group global BEV share | 17.7% | 18.3% | Deliveries | BMW Q2 2026 |
Sources: BMW Group, two-million BEV milestone release; ACEA H1 2026 registrations. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
We are not merging these into a single outperformance multiple, and the reason matters. BMW’s “Europe sales region” is not the EU27 — it includes the UK, Switzerland, Norway and others. BMW counts deliveries to customers; ACEA counts registrations. Those are different populations measured by different instruments, and a ratio built across them would look precise and mean nothing. Read side by side they still say something solid: a premium manufacturer running an electric mix roughly a third richer than the market it sells into, in a market where BEV share itself climbed 5.1 points year-on-year. For the market-side view across 31 European countries, see our Europe transport electrification hub.
BMW EV Revenue: What the Company Actually Discloses
BMW does not break out revenue by drivetrain. There is no BEV revenue line in the annual report, the half-year report or any quarterly statement. Every “BMW EV revenue” figure in circulation is somebody’s model with an assumed average transaction price behind it — which is fine as modelling and useless as a citation.
What is disclosed, and what can be computed from it:
| Metric | FY 2025 | Q2 2026 | Q2 2025 | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group revenue | €133,453m | €31,259m | €33,946m | BMW published |
| Automotive segment revenue | €117,557m | €27,162m | €29,443m | BMW published |
| Group EBT | €10,236m | €1,697m | €2,614m | BMW published |
| Automotive EBIT margin | 5.3% | 2.3% | 5.4% | BMW published |
| R&D spending | €8,319m | — | — | BMW published |
| Automotive revenue per delivery | €47,716 | €45,962 | €47,376 | Axis calculated |
Revenue per delivery = automotive segment revenue ÷ automotive deliveries. Sources: BMW Group Annual Conference release (12 March 2026); BMW Group Q2 2026 financial key information (30 July 2026). Retrieved 20 September 2026.
Automotive revenue per delivered vehicle fell €1,414 between Q2 2025 and Q2 2026, a 3.0% decline against a 4.9% volume decline. BMW attributes the pressure to tariffs, currency, and price and product measures taken to stabilise transaction prices in China. The mix shift toward BEVs is not separable from those effects in the disclosed data, and we will not pretend otherwise.
The guidance revision is the sharper story. In March, BMW forecast an Automotive EBIT margin of 4–6% for 2026 with deliveries on a par with 2025 and BEV share holding at the prior year’s level. By 30 July that had been cut to 1–3% on the margin, RoCE to 1–5%, deliveries to a slight decrease, and Group pre-tax profit to a significant decrease. The electrification assumption was the one that survived: H1 BEV share came in at 17.7% against 17.9% for full-year 2025. BMW cut its margin guidance by three percentage points while its electric mix tracked plan almost exactly.
What Is Driving BMW’s EV Sales in 2026?
The iX3 and the Neue Klasse ramp
| Milestone | Value | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| iX3 European orders | 100,000 | Sept 2026 (first year on sale) | BMW, via Der Spiegel |
| iX3 share of European BMW BEV orders | 1 in 3 | H1 2026 | BMW |
| iX3 share of X3-family orders | 1 in 2 | H1 2026 | BMW |
| 50,000th iX3 produced, Plant Debrecen | 9 months after SOP | 28 July 2026 | BMW |
| Second shift, Debrecen | Feb 2026, ahead of plan | Feb 2026 | BMW |
| Fully electric models offered | 20 by end 2026 | target | BMW |
| New or updated models to 2027 | 40+ | target | BMW |
Sources: BMW Debrecen 50,000th iX3 release; BMW two-million milestone release; BMW Annual Conference release. The 100,000-order figure is a company statement made by board member Jochen Goller in an interview published 15 September 2026, not a filed disclosure — treat it as company-reported. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
Debrecen reached 50,000 units nine months after start of production, which BMW calls the fastest ramp of any new plant in its network. That claim is a production-readiness statement, not a sales result, but the two are coupled here: the second shift was pulled forward to February 2026 because order intake ran ahead of the launch plan drawn up before the car existed in showrooms.
An order is not a delivery. Cumulative European iX3 orders of 100,000 against roughly 50,000 built by late July means an order bank of similar size to the cars already made — a backlog that converts into Q3 and Q4 volume, or ages into cancellations if the charging curve at a motorway stop does not match the WLTP figure on the brochure. BMW quotes up to 805 km WLTP for the iX3 50 xDrive and 400 kW peak DC charging on an 800V architecture.
The United States switches on this month
The 2027 iX3 50 xDrive entered the US market in September 2026 at $61,500 plus $1,350 destination, with an EPA rating of up to 434 miles. BMW of North America moved first deliveries forward from the scheduled 25 September date. Against a Q2 2026 US BEV penetration of 6.1%, the iX3 is arriving into BMW’s weakest electric market by a wide margin — and into one where the federal purchase credit is gone. This is the single cleanest natural experiment in the premium segment right now: identical product, identical powertrain, one market with regulatory pull and one without. Q4 2026 US figures will settle an argument that surveys have not.
Two million, and the pace of the next million
BMW handed over its 1.5-millionth BEV in June 2025 and its two-millionth in August 2026 — 500,000 cars in roughly fourteen months, or about 35,700 a month. The two-millionth was a BMW i5 M60 xDrive built at Dingolfing and delivered to a customer in Spain. Including plug-in hybrids, BMW puts cumulative electrified deliveries at around 3.5 million since 2013.
Axis Intelligence Research estimates the two-and-a-half-millionth BEV lands around November 2027, holding the H1 2026 run rate of 34,049 BEVs a month. Formula: 500,000 ÷ 34,049 = 14.7 months from August 2026. This is an estimate on a flat-rate assumption, published so it can be checked against the outcome rather than quietly revised. It moves earlier if the i3 and the US iX3 add volume; it moves later if China keeps subtracting.
BMW EV Sales by Brand
| Brand | 2025 deliveries | 2025 BEV deliveries | BEV share of brand | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMW | 2,169,739 | not separately published for 2025 | — | BMW Group Report 2025 |
| MINI | 288,278 | >105,000 | >36% | BMW Annual Conference release |
| Rolls-Royce | 5,664 | not published for 2025 | — | BMW Group Report 2025 |
| Group | 2,463,681 | 442,059 | 17.9% | BMW Group Report 2025 |
Sources: BMW Group Report 2025; BMW Group Annual Conference release, 12 March 2026. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
BMW stopped publishing a full brand-level BEV split with the 2025 results; for 2024 it disclosed 368,523 BMW, 56,181 MINI and 1,890 Rolls-Royce. MINI is the interesting line and the one most often missed: more than a third of every MINI sold in 2025 was fully electric, against 17.9% at group level. MINI then grew 11.7% in H1 2026 — its sixth consecutive quarter of growth — with BMW naming its electric models as the brand’s primary growth driver, while the BMW marque fell 6.2%. The group’s electrification rate is being carried by its smallest volume brand.
Methodology
Collection. Every figure was taken from a document fetched and read during production between 19 and 20 September 2026. Primary sources: the BMW Group Report 2025 (audited annual figures), BMW Group quarterly sales releases for Q1 and Q2 2026, BMW Group Q2 2026 financial key information, the BMW Group Annual Conference release of 12 March 2026, the two-million BEV milestone release of 27 August 2026, the Plant Debrecen production release of 28 July 2026, BMW of North America’s iX3 pricing release, and ACEA passenger-car registration releases for H1 2026 and full-year 2025. Full URLs and retrieval dates sit in every row of the accompanying CSV.
Basis rules. Annual figures use the audited BMW Group Report; quarterly figures use the provisional press releases, as BMW labels them. Where the two disagree, both values are recorded and the discrepancy stated. Deliveries and registrations are never merged into a single figure.
Calculated figures. Four classes of calculation appear on this page, each marked axis_calculated = yes in the CSV with its formula in method_note:
- Regional BEV and PHEV units — regional deliveries × regional drivetrain share, with the Americas-ex-US figure taken as a residual.
- BEV-GCI — largest region’s BEV units ÷ global BEV units × 100.
- Prior-period figures — derived from BMW’s stated year-on-year growth rates, corroborated against BMW’s own rounded charts where available.
- Revenue per delivery and the 2.5-million projection — arithmetic on published totals, with the projection labelled as an estimate on a flat-rate assumption.
Precision. BMW rounds regional drivetrain shares to one decimal place. Derived unit counts therefore carry an uncertainty band of roughly ±0.05% of regional volume — about ±130 units for Europe, ±60 for China. The China PHEV figure is reported as “under 250 units” rather than a point estimate for exactly this reason.
Excluded. BMW BEV revenue, BEV gross margin, per-model BEV sales and battery-pack cost per kWh are not disclosed by BMW and do not appear here. BMW Brilliance Automotive joint-venture volumes are included in group deliveries, as BMW reports them.
About This Dataset
bmw-ev-sales-statistics.csv contains every figure on this page as a tidy long-format table: annual BEV series 2021–2025, quarterly 2025–2026, regional reconstructions, BEV-GCI readings, financial metrics and product milestones. Each row carries metric, value, unit, as_of_date, geography, source_org, source_document, source_url, retrieved_date, is_primary, axis_calculated and method_note.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does BMW publish EV sales by model?
No. BMW reports BEV volume at group level and, since 2025, has stopped giving a full brand-level split. There is no official per-model figure for the iX3, i4, iX1 or i5. Model-level numbers circulating online are registration-database estimates or national-market reconstructions, not BMW disclosures. BMW does publish iX3 order and production counts, which are different quantities.
Why don’t BMW’s quarterly BEV figures add up to the half-year total?
Q1 2026 (87,458) plus Q2 2026 (116,807) gives 204,265, while BMW reports 204,295 for H1. BMW states in each release that delivery figures are provisional until the BMW Group Report is published, and restates as dealer reporting settles. A 30-unit gap on 204,000 is a normal artefact of that process, not a contradiction.
Are MINI and Rolls-Royce EVs counted in BMW Group BEV numbers?
Yes. “BMW Group BEV” covers BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce. This matters when comparing against single-brand carmakers: MINI contributed more than 105,000 BEVs in 2025, roughly a quarter of the group total, at a brand BEV share above 36%. A BMW-brand-only comparison against Tesla or BYD is not comparing the same entity.
Does BMW disclose how much revenue comes from electric vehicles?
No. BMW reports Automotive segment revenue as a single line — €117,557 million in 2025 — with no drivetrain breakdown in the annual report, half-year report or quarterly statements. Any BMW EV revenue figure you encounter is a model built on an assumed average transaction price.
What’s the difference between BMW’s “electrified” and “BEV” figures?
“Electrified” combines battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles; “BEV” is fully electric only. For 2025 the figures were 642,071 electrified against 442,059 BEV. BMW leads with the electrified number in most communications, so a headline about “one in four BMWs being electrified” and one about “17.9% fully electric” are both correct and describe different things.
Why is BMW’s US electric share so far below its European share?
In Q2 2026 BMW’s BEV share was 31.3% in Europe and 6.1% in the United States. BMW attributes the US weakness to the discontinuation of federal BEV incentives, noting that combustion demand rose over the same period. Europe’s CO2 fleet framework works in the opposite direction: BMW reported EU fleet emissions of 90 g/km for 2025, meeting the target without pooling. The vehicles are largely the same; the purchase economics are not.
Is the iX3’s 100,000-order figure a sales number?
No. Orders are cumulative European order intake since the books opened in September 2025 and include cars not yet built. BMW had produced roughly 50,000 iX3s by late July 2026. The gap is an order bank that converts to deliveries over following quarters, subject to cancellation.
How does BMW count a “delivery” versus a registration?
A delivery is recorded when a vehicle is handed to an end user, including lessees under BMW Financial Services contracts; in the US and Canada it also includes dealer service loaners and demonstrators. Registration data from ACEA, KBA or SMMT counts vehicles entering national registers. The two series move together but are never identical, which is why this page keeps them in separate rows.
Which BMW BEV figure should I cite for 2025 — 442,056 or 442,059?
Cite 442,059 from the BMW Group Report 2025 if you need the audited figure, and say so. 442,056 comes from the same-day Annual Conference press release and is labelled provisional. Both are BMW’s own numbers; the difference is the stage of reporting, not an error by either.
Has BMW hit two million EVs, and how fast is the next million coming?
Yes — BMW delivered its two-millionth BEV in August 2026, about fourteen months after the 1.5-millionth in June 2025. Axis Intelligence Research estimates the 2.5-million point around November 2027 at the H1 2026 run rate of 34,049 BEVs a month.
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