BMW Group announced its 2024 financial results and future goals at a digital press conference.
In a comprehensive statement from the company in this regard, the following place given: “In 2024, BMW Group made significant investments in innovative technologies, model range and worldwide production infrastructure. In 2025, it will target the profit rate of the previous year by narrowing R & D expenditures and capital investments in 2025. will pass.
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BMW AG Chairman Oliver Zipse“What makes BMW Group differently different is our ability to maintain our route even in difficult conditions. We continue to focus on two points, our short -term performance and long -term perspective. With Neue Klasse, we provide a solid free cash flow for the future in our history. And we strengthen customer benefits and offer the latest technology to every customer without discrimination between segments or engine technologies. ” he said.
BMW Group continues to grow with electrification
BMW Group, which contains more than 15 electric models in all its brands, managed to increase the sales share of exceeding 17 percent in 2024 with an increase of 13.5 percent of the worldwide electric car sales by 426 thousand 536 percent. BMW, increased by 11.6 percent of 368 thousand 523 electric vehicles, while MINI MINI 56 thousand 181 units of performance of one of the four automobile sales realized as electric.
BMW Group, which made one of every four delivery in 2024 with its electric models, reached a total sale of 593 thousand 215 PHEV and BEV models. Since the release of the BMW i3 and BMW i8, the BMW Group, which has brought three million electric vehicles to the roads, aims to deliver 1.5 million completely electric vehicles in 2025.
Strategic success factor in global competition: Technological openness
BMW Group’s diversity in the product range of BMW Group, which offers solutions to its customers with a wide range of motors to meet different requirements both today and in the future, continues to be one of the important factors of success.
First mass production hydrogen fuel cell model in 2028
BMW Group will offer its customers a new emission -free engine option in 2028 as the first premium manufacturer to launch a worldwide mass production hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. In this context, the BMW Group will deepen the cooperation with the Toyota Motor Corporation.
BMW iX3 will be the first mass production Neue Klasse Model
Neue Klasse, which represents the mobility of the future, will start at the end of 2025. The first production tool of these new BMW models will be called the BMW iX3 model. The mass production of the model will start at the Debrecen Factory, which is the first BMW Group production facility that produces only fully electric vehicles at the end of 2025.
Neue Klasse’s technology clusters will be integrated into the entire BMW product range. With this development, BMW Group; Electric motor components, screen projection technologies and driving dynamics will make a significant development in many areas such as control functions.
Digital Nerve Network for “Software Defined Vehicle”
The BMW Group, which has completely redesigned the components, functionality and connection of the software -defined vehicle, has revealed a completely reconstructed digital neural network with the new electric system, software architecture and four “Super Brain”. These high -performance computers; In-car information-entertainment will classify the calculation power for automatic driving, driving dynamics and basic functions.
Redesigning of electronic architecture; Performance allows the integration ability and efficiency to be moved to the next level. The innovations can be transmitted to vehicles much faster with aerial updates. Thus, the vehicles can maintain update when the next vehicle generates the market. In 2025, BMW Group aims to increase the number of vehicles over ten million.
High -level driving experience
With the new “Heart of Joy” and “BMW Dynamic Performance Control” software, which is ten times faster than previous systems, entirely developed within the company and provides maximum integration, BMW Group aims to make great progress in driving experience. The high level of integrated new control unit, which will be used in all full electric BMWs in the future, brings together the functions of transfer organs and driving dynamics for the first time. New Control Unit; The transfer bodies take the efficiency of the integrated control of braking and recovery to the next level. With the integrated power transfer organ, braking and energy recovery control allows the use of energy more sustainable and increases efficiency by 25 percent. The braking power produced by the recovery of energy requires the intervention of friction brakes during sudden or strong braking moments such as emergencies, such as emergencies.
The performance capabilities and potential of “Heart of Joy, is displayed with the BMW Vision driving experience. In this new high -performance test tool, the functionality of the electronic control unit is tested under challenging conditions. The new vision tool can easily meet driving demands with a level of torque up to 18 thousand nm and a much higher level of standards.
The BMW Vision driving experience will exhibit the abilities of “Heart of Joy in Auto Shanghai 2025 in April.
New BMW Panoramic Idrive with Driver -oriented
With the IDrive system more than 20 years ago, the BMW Group sets a new standard about driver focus and intuitive usability, providing a completely new display and a high -intelligence operating system with the new BMW iX3. With this step, BMW aims to reinterpret the “hands on the steering wheel, on the road” approach and carry it to the future.
BMW redesigns the central interface of the driver-car interaction with “BMW Panoramic Idrive”. At the center of the new system, BMW Panoramic Vision, a newly developed concept that reflects the content along the entire width of the windshield. System, BMW 3D Head-Up Display, Central Screen and New Multifunctional Steering It is completed with three new components. The entire system can be operated with touch or voice control through its BMW smart personal assistant, and this assistant is moving to a new level with large language models (LLM).
The new Panoramic Idrive’s smart backbone is shaped by the new BMW operating system X, which is completely developed within the company and based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) software. This operating system provides significant update and upgrade capabilities and provides the optimal coordination and distribution of the content between the four elements of Panoramic Idrive. At the same time, it offers maximum privatization and personalization according to customers’ personal preferences and needs.SIXTH GENERATION NEW BMW EDrive Technology
The BMW Group will launch the sixth generation of EDrive technology in Neue Klasse’s electric models. The system, which includes three significant developed components, including high -voltage battery, electric motor and “BMW Energy Master”, will be produced at the BMW Group’s Landshut Factory.
New BMW EDrive Technology; It will provide 20 percent higher energy density, 30 percent faster charging and at least 30 percent more range. In this way, some models can be reached by 900 km range, while a 10 -minute charging 300 km road can be reached.
Strong brands, diversified product portfolio
Introducing the fourth generation of the new BMW X3, one of the best -selling models in 2024, BMW Group has expanded its powerful product range by making a comprehensive update in the two high -volume segment in the last two years.
New generations of the BMW 1 series and BMW 2 series Gran Coupé were released in the entry -level segment. In the BMW’s main segment, both the BMW 3 series and the BMW 4 series were further developed. After the update, BMW iX now provides over 700 kilometers of full electric range according to the WLTP criteria.
In 2024, BMW M models made record sales for the 13th time in a row with a wide range of models.
With the release of its new MINI Cooper Cabrio, the new MINI family, which consists of a total of five models, completed its transformation.
BMW Motorrad, on the other hand, made the highest sales of R12 and R 12 Nineet and high -performance long -distance sports models in the Heritage segment with the GS models in the Adventure segment.
More than 18 billion euros investment
BMW Group, which has invested more than 18 billion euros in R & D and capital expenditures for the financial year of 2024, continues to systematically work on future model updates and technological innovations, including electrification and digitalization in all model series.
BMW Group managed to achieve its goals
The BMW Group managed to achieve the corrected business targets set for 2024 in September. The BMW Group benefited from the increasing demand for attractive premium vehicles in markets other than China, with a growth of 4.1 percent, generated 142 billion 380 million euros and managed to expand its position to be number one in the world.
Investing in the future reaches the summit with Neue Klasse
BMW Group’s R & D expenditures increased significantly to 9 billion 78 million euros. BMW Group’s capital expenditures for the whole year rose to 9 billion 56 million euros, while investment expenditures for the 12 -month period increased to 6.4 percent.