MUNICH (dpa-AFX) – BMW is trying to enhance gross sales once more this yr. In 2022, the automaker, against this, needed to settle for a 4.8 p.c drop with 2.4 million autos delivered, because it introduced Tuesday. Within the final quarter, nonetheless, the figures confirmed a transparent upward pattern: 651,798 autos delivered by Group manufacturers represented a ten.6 p.c enhance. The group has not set any particular targets for this yr. Nevertheless, Pieter Nota, Member of the Board of Administrators for Gross sales, introduced that the “worthwhile progress path” will proceed.

BMW desires to make notably robust features in totally electrical automobiles. Right here, the share of whole gross sales will enhance to fifteen p.c in 2023. Final yr, it was 9 p.c with 215 thousand 755 autos. This was greater than double the determine in 2021. “We proceed to see excessive order consumption, particularly for our all-electric fashions,” Nota emphasised.

Full-year gross sales figures in main markets have equally improved. The group skilled the sharpest decline in Europe with 7.5 p.c. Gross sales in China fell 6.4 p.c and gross sales in America 2.3 p.c. There have been exceptions: BMW owed partially to robust gross sales figures from South Korea that gross sales in Asia general fell rather more slowly than in its largest sub-market, China.

BMW launched the primary figures final week, together with group-level whole quantity and a pair of.1 million autos for the core BMW model./ruc/DP/males