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Munich / Augsburg (dpa) - BMW increases production planning for electric cars.
"We are now again significantly increasing the number of electric hits," said CEO Oliver Zipse of the "Augsburger Allgemeine" (Monday edition).
"In the years 2021 to 2023 we will also build a quarter of a million more electric cars than originally planned."
The share of electrified BMW vehicles in sales should more than double in the next three years - "from around eight percent this year to around 20 percent in 2023".
The BMW boss described the currently still slow expansion of the charging infrastructure as the “central challenge” in electrifying road traffic.
“In Germany, around seven to ten million electrified vehicles are expected to be on the road by 2030.
Because every car has to be charged, you would need a total of around eight to eleven million charging points - one million of which are public, ”said Zipse.
“Starting today, 15,000 private and around 1,300 public charging points would have to be put into operation every week for this size.
Unfortunately, we are far from that. "
Therefore, his greatest concern is “in fact that our electric car offensive is being slowed down by the lack of expansion of the charging infrastructure”.
Zipse was self-confident towards the US electric car pioneer Elon Musk with his Tesla brand, which is currently building a plant in Grünheide, Brandenburg.
He attested Tesla an "impressive entrepreneurial performance" in view of the high growth rates and growing market shares, but also emphasized that the German manufacturers in the premium segment had a world market share of around 80 percent, which they wanted to defend.
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"Let's look soberly at the figures for the first eleven months of this year in Germany: According to this, 11.9 percent of all vehicles sold have a plug, so they are purely electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids," said the BMW boss.
“And of that 11.9 percent, 0.5 percentage points come from Tesla.
BMW is 1.1 percentage points here - more than twice as high. "