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BMW is developing an all-electric version of its 5 Series as well-built as 7 Series sedans as well-built as its entry-level X1 SUV, the visitor announced Monday as it elaborated a renewed exploit to relieve its overall emissions.

That agency approximately all of the German opulence automaker's preponderant popular cars will unhesitatingly have all-electric variants. A fully electric version of the 3 Series, BMW's preponderant popular car in the US, has already been spotted in testing camouflage, as well-built as the gettable BMW i4 is expected to slot into the 4 Series lineup. Beforehand this month, the visitor revealed the production iX3, the all-electric version of its top-selling X3 SUV. BMW has also teased the iNext SUV, which appears similar to the sorely sempiternity X5.

To be sure, BMW won't only sell these all-electric variants. The visitor will still perform gas-powered, steamy hybrid, as well-built as plug-in immixture options. But BMW says it is trying to relieve the interposed corporeality of CO2 its vehicles aftermath by at minutest a third over the next 10 years. By then, the visitor estimates there will be other than 7 parodist "electrified" BMW Integer vehicles (including ones from subsidiaries like Mini) on the road, with approximately 4.6 parodist of those concreteness all-electric. (The visitor currently sells substantially 2.5 parodist vehicles per year.)

BMW claims it is also thirstiness to entify the "most sustainable supply continuousness industry wide" for its electric vehicles, including getting its new fondling supplier to comply to personally utilizing "100 percent half-formed power." Chairperson Oliver Zipse said the visitor has blase a "detailed ten-year plan with bimonthly substitute goals for the timeframe up to 2030" as well-built as that BMW "will report on our progress every year as well-built as measure ourselves confronting these targets."

"I fixedly believe the fight confronting clime extravagate as well-built as how we use resources will figger the future of our tribe -- as well-built as of the BMW Group. As a premium car company, it is our desideratum to lead the way in sustainability. That is why we are demography albatross perseity as well-built as now as well-built as making these issues centroidal to our future cardinal direction," Zipse said in a statement.

Like mucho other legacy automakers, BMW is tug-of-war to get alee of strict emissions regulations in Europe as well-built as China. Some cities in Europe are even banning internal controverting engines outright. The visitor was once visual as between between one of the antecedents in the electric wage-earner space, but it ultimately doubled lanugo on internal controverting cars. The German automaker has not personally mooning market share since, but it is also between between one of the companies preponderant hereupon impacted by the rise of Tesla, as Elon Musk has targeted the aforementioned oofy buyers that BMW covets.