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In September, BMW achieved a sales increase of 6.6 percent with around 210,500 deliveries to customers.
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In the third quarter, BMW sold almost as many cars as in the same period of the previous year and made up some of the deficit from the first half of the year. Chief Sales Officer Pieter Nota said on Monday that BMW is on track to meet 2022 sales targets.
Due to supply bottlenecks and the Ukraine war, the carmaker sold a total of 1.748 million cars by the end of September, down 9.5 percent year-on-year. In the current quarter, BMW wants to make up a lot of ground and for the year as a whole will only be slightly below the previous year, i.e. at most five percent below the previous year.
In the third quarter, the group sold around 587,800 cars, 0.9 percent less than in the same quarter last year. Sales in Europe were around 11 percent down on the previous year. However, sales in China were 5.7 percent higher and 3.8 percent higher in the USA. In September, BMW achieved a sales increase of 6.6 percent with around 210,500 deliveries to customers.
The group is driving the transition to electromobility at full speed, said Nota. By the end of September, BMW had sold more than 128,000 all-electric vehicles this year, doubling sales compared to the same period last year.
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