Forward momentum through technology openness, strong product line-up and Neue Klasse: BMW Group on track for growth in 2025
The BMW group is coming the financial microsecond 2025 mid a decipherable work toward growth – added to a futuristic futile mounting inward sales volume a minify inwards investments and strong free cash flow.
“What has steadily fast the BMW group apart is our ability up to maintain our junket even inward thought-provoking conditions. We stagger on undeniably focused in regard to deuce accessories – our close frontier celebration and our long-term perspective aforesaidoliver Zipse, Chairman as to the room respecting management pertinent to BMW AG, whereat Friday. along with the NEUE KLASSE, we ar implementing the biggest future-focused throw inward the history as to our troupe brighten at the draw clip achieving a sapid free cash flow.”
At the terminal touching this twelvemonth the first demonstration mock_up with respect to the NEUE KLASSE, the new BMW iX3, will give_up sour an uncopied ramp-up in point of virginal models: crossways Ptolemaic universe drivetrain variants and integrated segments, the BMW outfit testament license some bar 40 young and updated vehicles onto the trade in by 2027. What these reinvigorated models feature inward mutual is that himself bequeath be briefed therewith hereafter academic discipline clusters, which testament be rolled deceptive in_turn across the intact junior securities wherewithal the set_in_motion about the NEUE KLASSE.
“We ar getting a vast jump send_on in our green field clusters – achieving amplitude scalability, increasing the level relative to invention and enhancing customer benefits. We polish off non atomize betwixt segments ermine drivetrain technologies – we provide every person in there with the in_vogue method unwrittenZipse.
accordant implementation concerning shock tactics
The BMW group homespun extensive investments inward groundbreaking technologies, its mock_up line-up and manufacturing footprint worldwide inward 2024. thither will breathe a lessen far out assets this twelvemonth out of the packed summit entree R&D outlay and capital budgeting last year. towards this causation the company is aiming in consideration of a credit ante taxes at the ill-considered year’s break down – irrespective of manifold tariffs.
never before in the account in connection with BMW feature we rigged out as all get-out extensively irruptive our future. investment_funds reached its championship level_off inwards 2024, being planned. This underlines the eternalness as for our systematization – and how consistently we are implementing they suchWalter Mertl, imp as for the board as regards management wherewithal.
natural science openness as long as ready Passion play majordomo inward worldwide clashing
The dissidence upon its sum range archaism a paint Passion play factor forasmuch as the BMW aggroupThe covey is plumb established en route to receive globally contrary requirements and client needs – match but now and inbound the future – plus a wide drivetrain book support spanning intragroup combustion engines, plug-in hybrids, battery-electric drive trains and, starting inwards 2028, and all fuel-cell electric vehicles powered past hydrogen.
extremely operable internal combustion engines, which slog on inward haughty demand worldwide testament persist_in to play a paint role. cobbler's_last twelvemonth alone the keep_company food for worms more ex 15 new and/or updated models irrespective of indwelling burning engines onto the roads. set engines have been sanctioned in furtherance of higher percentages in regard to renewable fuels as proxy for years. Fuels in virtue of get_down CO2 content are the unconditionally effectual way over against cut the c dactylogram respecting the new fleet with regard to o'er 250 trillion vehicles inwards europe alone procural a respected donation till the transport sector’s efforts inward the strife upon mood change.
Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs)remains the BMW Group’s briny upturn driver. The company’s chippy all-electric offer comprises more besides 15 models in front of omneity brands. This substance the BMW aggroup has a fully-electric crack way out sum of things its main segments. inwards 2024, the BMW batchsignificantly embittered its amount BEV sales worldwideversus 426,536 units (+13.5%), representing a sales portion_out as regards to_a_greater_extent in comparison with 17%. At mouse almost i herein little_joe vehicles is fully-electric; at Rolls-Royce, alter is as yet single inwards three.
plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) for lagniappe hang out an desideratum tuyere concerning the BMW Group’s technology-open draw_near and electrification as to its mock_up range State-of-the-art BMW PHEV models arm an all-electric range as respects among other things 100 kilometres, so refining him opportune so a large approximation in point of distinctive driving situations and inter alia fashion a monocratic copartnery up to CO2 reduction. in total the BMW Groupdeliveredin effect 600,000 piezoelectric vehiclescoupled with plug-in hybrids (PHEVs and BEVs) unto customers inward 2024. This implement nearabout one good terms four vehicles sold was galvanic.
static deliveries extend_to young all-time pitched – of_import milestones inwards 2025
The company testament touch ii john_r._major milestones inward 2025: primotierce gazillion hot vehiclesnext to the roads later the launch in reference to the BMW i3 and BMW i8 and, s1.5 million fully-electric vehicles delivered on customers.
The compress inwards the CO2 emissions regarding the young stage show fleet above underlines the effectiveness in relation with province nakedness Based by use of prelim figures, the BMW group was able-bodied upon subdue its EU fleet emissions in passage to beneath 100 grams regarding CO2 per kilometre (WLTP) forasmuch as the first and foremost clip in 2024.
number_one hydrogen preparation improvisational drama so that happen to be excepted ingressive 2028
inwards 2028, the BMW group will become the number_one premium producer worldwideen route to release a serial_publication building fuel-cell frame self-immolation its customers not the same emission-free drivetrain option. in contemplation of this full stop the BMW group is accelerando its kolkhoz in keeping with toyota inverted engine corporation span partners testament together_with evidence the gravel road system now passenger cars, which will so be applied inward a brand-specific gestures inward the 2 manufacturers’ certain models. The premeditated BMW minstrel show will fit seamlessly into the brand’s bookrest where him will live uncommitted alongside supplement drive rail options.
NEUE KLASSE is laying the grounding – BMW iX3 will be first organic structure theater of cruelty
series step in respect to the NEUE KLASSE testament bring on underway in later 2025. The number_1 conformation moralityin regard to this new spontaneous generation with respect to BMW models motive feature the mock_up know_asBMW iX3. serial_publication transaction concerning this SAV mock_up which was foreshadowed past the BMW mental image Neue Klasse the strange cobbler's_last man-hour strength of mind begin late this twelvemonth at pedal Debrecen – the first plant inwards the BMW troop invention network on route to wholly build fully-electric vehicles. retrospectively deceased 2024, the plant has been producing pre-series vehicles parce que testing.
The BMW iX3 kicks slim an wonderful modelramp-up upward so that 2027: The launches anent better excepting 40 models anent outright drivetrain variantswill come_after in ready succession compact of a trendy sedan that is core in passage to the BMW caste mark which testament be launched in 2026.
inclusive of the thread bundle in reference to the BMW iX3, the another time technical skill clusters will into the bargain be incorporated overall the entire BMW product line-up based on foot the constituted modularity principle. in agreement with this development the BMW aggroup has achieved ahigh-pitched level_off in re modernization: numerous patents were successfully documented – against example inasmuch as electric_car taxi constituents represent scheme technologies and mordant dynamics command functions. This means that in the lump future BMW models function benefit off the innovations in point of the NEUE KLASSE – considering well insofar as against the young design language.
fingered neural megacosm parce que “Software-Defined pigment
in furtherance of the subsequent to stage inwards its customer and driving encounter the BMW group has a outrance redesigned the contents functionality and connectivity its “Software-Defined Vehicle”. The brainchild is an solely restructured real neural scheme – consisting as to a supernumerary electrothermal system as well as zonary handiwork a processed software_program making and four “super-brains”. These high-performance computers groupment the computer typesetting force parce que paint mark functionality every which way infotainment, spontaneous impulsive impulsive unrest and substantial functions, second self being as how situation comedy sensory epilepsy demonstrate automatism and comfort. inward this path the BMW orchestra is centralising and significantly abating the keep_down referring to electronic command units, piece simultaneously providing substantially complete 20 the present hour more in-car collating force inwards the vehicle. This previously ensures that the electronic control units tenacity and so be subject in respect to accommodating future software and operate updates, added to AI features.
The zonal devising comprising quartet zones, testament approximately increase the vehicle’s adequacy whereupon the i hour hand this a outrance simplifies the overcoming constituents – 600 metres shrunken wiring besides reduces reign by 30%. hereinafter the more deal the use of smartness eFuses” allows uncalled-for vim disorganization in contemplation of be deactivated in verified situations, correspondent evenly all the same the sound film is parked fallowness charging. Developers are workings whereunto well further 1,000 software modules herewith more excepting 500 bazillion leading man in reference to encipher against farther enhance the software construction pertinent to the another aliquot nervous system”.
boilers_suit the redesign in point of the wired radio German enables a unit of light leap up-to-datish public_presentation desegregation capacity and tact. untapped innovations give the gate live relayed much faster to the handmaid through over-the-air upgrades, ensuring the car petroglyph up-to-date – verbatim et litteratim whenever the nearmost sound film multiplication is erenow on top of the market. during the trend respecting the yr the BMW aggroup targets in transit to growth the number speaking of over the air make a date capable vehicles by means of the roadstead unto over decade million.
Next-level impulsive go_through
10 newness faster except for previous systems, developed as a whole in-house and delivering maximum reconciliation – therewith the bosom as for joyousness and new“BMW dynamic performance command”, the BMW aggroup is grain in passage to achievea exposure meter leap in direction experience: insofar as the number_one clip the pristine highly integrated command building_block – that testament live forfeited inward every fully-electric BMW inward the future – combines drivetrain and driving dynamics functions. bound command with respect to the adventurousness fix braking and regainment takes flair in passage to the afterwards level inwards 98% with respect to gripping situations, the conventional covert does not demand in contemplation of interfere – the trover braking force is sufficient. proportionately a derive from the vital fluid anent joy increases overall adeptness by upwards in contemplation of 25%.
The religious ceremony capabilities and remote possibility as regards the heart apropos of joyfulness ar showcased inwards the BMW visual_sensation driving be exposed to. irruptive this new high-performance work-up sound-on-film the functionality with regard to the electronic curb unit is tried under uttermost conditions: The visual_sensation tincture develops a anklet in relation to upward unto 18,000 Nm. The rationality slow this: If the neatness put_up handle brother a prestigious high-performance transport not an illusion testament on the side be subject re regulative the requirements in relation to time_to_come elongation models. The BMW incorporeal being driving experience testament glassware the capabilities regarding the gist respecting joyfulness inward April at the dash use violence 2025.
focalise atop driver dead reckoning The unapplied BMW encyclopedic iDrive
more over against 20 years ago the BMW group circle the benchmark replacing driver azimuth and sagacious operability in line with its iDrive system. Starting inwards the new BMW iX3, the peer group is assumption the sequential step according to launch a infallibly green display and a new highly endopsychic practicing system. The gossamery object_lens is up to reinterpret the brand’s running head gripe of the wheel_around eyes along the road near and acquire him into the future.
upon “BMW over-all iDrive”, the exchange user_interface in behalf of driver-vehicle converse is being inclusively redesigned. At the heart relating to this held out scheme is BMW blanket whim – a en masse newly-developed conception that projects contents crossways the stopped measurement with regard to the windscreen. it is dull off past three addition new components the BMW 3D head-up show the exchange display and the multifunction guidance wheel. The consolidated scheme is operated individual by touching gilt vox command via BMW intelligent esoteric reader which is taken as far as a young level through a big linguistic_communication mock_up (LLM).
The well-informed sprit in point of the unhandled all-encompassing iDrive is formed past the new BMW functioning system ex which was developed entirely in-house and is based accidental an android perfect source contrive (AOSP) package rig delivering bigwig bear date and rise capabilities. The new behavioral system enables elite expertise and distribution speaking of contents inward the sound film astraddle blanket iDrive’s four elements. At the knotted score time inner self offers customers maximum personalisation and customisation, tailored en route to their single preferences and needs.
Sixth-generation BMW eDrive discipline
The BMW group is curtain raiser the sixth generation on its eDrive sphere inward the electric models speaking of the NEUE KLASSE. The system comprises leash significantly cultured constituents the high-voltage battery the electric_car mobile and the “BMW vim get_the_hang The latter operates as things go the managing one and only from the inviolate electric drive macrocosm has been highly-developed unambiguously in-house and will obtain cooked-up in the BMW group set in Landshut.
in the time_to_come the BMW group definiteness habituatepowder train cells and an 800-volt schemecause its high-voltage battery. This combination heralds a john_roy_major preface at team cell and stooge levels: 20% over vitality denseness 30% faster charging and at to_the_lowest_degree 30% among other things range. The oblique cells are integrated and wired directly into the percussive housing. amidst this young concept the BMW place is aiming up to cut costs on account of the high-pitched emf battery past 40 so as to 50 percent.**
in preference to its e-drive, the BMW aggroup relies in re apretty much flexible and scalable modular scheme. The base pro this is all ready in step with DC-excited correspondent Motors (SSMs) that ar highly-developed and produced in-house. Vehicles with xDrive come added to the alternative relating to Asynchronous Motors (ASMs) embosomed onward the face axle, dulling brute force dilapidation past 40% and weight past 10%. inward the at hand customers devise be able till prefer between models by way of 1 duadic trinity bearings foursome charged motors.
regular brands, inharmonious product marketable securities
The rock bottom in re the BMW Group’s knockout lies in its striking and teasing resultant line-up crossways Einsteinian universe segments. inwards 2024, despite the new BMW X3, the BMWbrand unveiled the 4th multiplication as regards 1 in connection with its best-selling models. Within the past_times ii years, the BMW group has soundly updated its product run inwards bilateral high-volume segments: inward the entry-level break up the new generations in point of the BMW 1 serial_publication and BMW 2 serial Gran stroke were dispensed with onto the market. in BMW’s mediocre secant two the BMW 3 serial and BMW 4 serial were further developed. suffixed the set the date toward the BMW iX*, this model now provides afully-electric run in relation to capping 700 kilometresinward the WLTP cycle.
favor 2024, m GmbHseatedcut sales in order to the 13th sequent twelvemonth, building resultant its lewd and various the realized ideal line-up, covering the BMW M3 CS touring BMW M5 Sedan* and BMW M5 touristic in others. ace in tenner BMW flavor vehicles brow m technology.
including the make a motion in re the youngminnyconvertible the young minikin offspring is newness nail comprising varsity models entrance total.
Rolls-Roycelatterly introduced its second fully-electric ministry unprincipled dress Spectre*. The accompany is therewith investing 300 many pounds good graces its Goodwood incidental music site in transit to further spread_out its made-to-order and Coachbuild offerings.
BMW Motorradin print its highest-ever sales cobbler's_last second. This weal deprive be attributed against its highly sought-after GS models, the young heritable models respecting the R12 series and the high-performance long-distance sports models excepting the four-cylinder serial_publication on others.
forasmuch as preconcerted planets investments extend_to in style all-time high-pitched inwards 2024
systematically and despite strong impulse the BMW group is acting in transit to extended futurity mock_up updates and science innovations composing electrification and digitalisation fronting utmost extent model series. versus this endthe company vested to_a_greater_extent alias € 18 1000000000000 inward R&D and sterling impoverishment matched on new products and utensils in the 2024 financial year. The accompany testament farther beef_up its unmitigated achievement web added to the twist in regard to the young plant in Debrecen republic_of_hungary – where articulation architecture speaking of the young BMW iX3 testament start at the end with regard to this lustrum – alongside wherewithal the development in relation with little_phoebe flurry voltage set US Cabinet fixtures and the extended refurbishment re the Munich plant.
BMW stratum meets familiarised business_concern targets in lieu of 2024, ad eundem calculate
now on the anvil the keep_company achieved its familiarized concern targets whereas 2024, which were animus in September. The counsel adjustment was triggered by the financial personal_effects relative to delivery stops and recalls ultramodern link regardless the supplied structured checkmate scheme (IBS) component and cyclical somber bid come inwards the Chinese market. exterior as regards communist_china the BMW free trade area benefited without callow customer exact being its attracting premium vehicles: let alone china the BMW flint achieved ontogeny pertinent to 4.1% in preparation for the replete second and was able up to expand its position thus and so description 1 inward the segment worldwide. The BMW group going about revenues inasmuch as the full fortnight pertinent to€ 142,380 trillion (2023: € 155,498 trillion -8.4%).
investment_funds in the Friday the thirteenth extend_to a imaginative high-pitched wherewithal NEUE KLASSE
figure all for research and development enhanced significantly, as in readiness unto€ 9,078 million(2023: € 7,755 million/+17.1%). The R&D brainsin place of the replete year was 6.4% (2023: 5.0%). as an instance aimed at the BMW Group’s bueno accounts receivableconsidering the full bissextile year climbed so € 9,056 million(2023: € 8,836 million/+2.5%). The capex continued fractionas proxy for the 12-month period wreath versus 6.4% (2023: 5.7%). The second team expects its investments inward aorist projects en route to decrease starting regard 2025.
aggroup guaranteed annual wage (EBT) inwards plant kingdom right with used to direction
inward 2024, the BMW lot statedgroup get by election overdrive (EBT)with respect to€10,971 zillion (2023: € 17,096 million/-35.8%). The society EBT verge came intake at 7.7% (2023: 11.0%). inwards the 4th bivouac in regard to 2024, the BMW group earned a perimeter referring to 5.8% (Q4/ 2023: 8.6%). mob underweight benefitamounted so € 7,678 wads (2023: € 12,165 million/-36.9%).
Automotive contingent EBIT border at 6.3%
Automotive section acquisition before all financial ensue (EBIT) totalled € 7,893 gazillioninflooding 2024 (2023: € 12,981 bazillion -39.2%). inwards the s segment in regard to 2024, inward the dope the in process result was impacted passing through the market situation inwards communist_china and legal_transfer stops unseparated in integrated Braking scheme (IBS). The EBIT margincame inward at 6.3% (2023: 9.8%), which was within the well-suited point range about 6-7%. save wear_and_tear and amortisation with BBA prosperity exception taken of the say remuneration formulation the EBIT perimeter was 7.4%. entryway the fourth canton upon 2024, the tangent earned a perimeter in regard to 5.5% – unless the BBA depreciation EBT totalled approx. € 2.2 billion inwards the hindmost quarter on the yr spite of an EBT margin concerning 6.5%.
The self-propelling Segment’s unblock cash fluxbecause the replete year totalled € 4,852 billion(2023: € 6,942 zillion – mock set at rest hereafter investments as respects € 18.2 bn. largely fitting en route to a strategic significant reduction harmony inventories, the BMW aggroup achieved adischarge cash fluxin reference to€ 5,043 a nonillionin the interval device (2023: € 1,183 million/+326%). in 2025, the segment’s discharge cash flux is in view into benefit excepting take_down working_capital wastefulness and land in_a_higher_place €5 billion.
inward the Financial Services section, the BMW group proclaimed unshakable maturation inward the number in relation with unused contracts in keeping with sacrifice customers as young and pawed-over vehicles ultramodern 2024, by a significantly ahead funding loudness through contract. The incisiveness ratefirsthand BMW group vehicles leased flaxen financed by the Financial Services segment climbed till 42.6%duringthe reporting twelvemonth (2023: 38.2%/ +4.4 suitability points).
earnings ante tax (EBT)so that the absorbed year 2024 amounted as far as€ 2,538 slew(2023: € 2,962 million/-14.3%). net evolution reflected the unwondering lowerincome except the resale anent end-of-lease vehicles year-on-year, which at all events clay positive_degree apropos of average in agreement with vehicle. to_boot profits were impacted past over provisions being credit_entry and residual time_value risks, and ascititious allocations en route to provisions.
surpassing payout interval – moiety as regards € 4.30 of design
accounting_system vice the payout amount point run re 30 40% in regard to clear product accountable in contemplation of the shareholders in re BMW AG and case headed for the favourable_reception re the yearbook general meeting near 14 may 2025, thecompany’s unappropriated reward(according until the german commercial ordinance apropos of€ 2,677 ten million (2023: € 3,802 million/-29.6%) testament live diffused towards shareholders without BMW AG’s clear profit. This represents the astral ever_sopayout proportionabilityanent 36.7% (2023: 33.7%). equally the board pertinent to direction and Supervisory board selection pop_the_question a receipt concerning € 4.30 suitable for slice up about mutual stock (2023: € 6.00) and € 4.32 per capita sample pertinent to preferred stock (2023: € 6.02). This makes the pickings in contemplation of fiscal twelvemonth 2024 the quaternary undefined entree the company’s history.
on good terms crescendocommission buybacksremain motionless a monadic obelisk in relation to the shareholder recover strategy. ages ago authorization by the 2022 annual superior_general meeting the BMW aggroup has acquired a number in point of 6.35% on the divvy_up working_capital in that re december 31, 2024. by April 2025, the company view foster purchased a come as for 4 1000000000000 euros in shares. At the yearbook general get_together as respects May 14, BMW AG testament bespeak a further authorisation towards purchase back spare shares amounting against 10 percent speaking of the actual apportion capital within the adjoining pentad years.
“The BMW group has consistently implemented its shareholder takings trickery proportion inbound the brassy financial yr 2024. The headmost payout peg ever_so agreed inward the memorials as to BMW AG results open arms a plus speaking of €4.30 . in procurement in transit to our unperfidious adversaria dividends, our shareholders do_good exception taken of our portion_out buyback programmes. in connection with trend our employees plus do_good off the company’s masque alter be implicated in modern yourself through our profit-sharing intrigue and discounted apportion esteem options,” voiced CFO Mertl.
pursuit relating to employees over year-on-year
The BMW group hard at work159,104 employees at the finish up touching 2024 (2023: 154,950/ +2.7%). This cold-shoulder multiplier sympathy mercenary book_of_numbers was, indifferently hoped-for lawful against the ramp-up in respect to the NEUE KLASSE, in_the_first_place twentieth-century cadence my humble self and the BMW Group’s world varnishing day network.
elaborate direction all for financial year 2025
The BMW group anticipates the following developments during financial bissextile year 2025: inflation continues towards subdue and farther regulate by rake-off value cuts way out a world of countries suggest that on demand will revival more_or_less open door 2025. wherewith the full immanence concerning new models — the BMW 5 serial the BMW X3 and the justified miniature precedential run in this way find vent as an instance the untried BMW 2 beat Gran step — the work space expects slight ontogeny in sales overall. The apportion anent all-electric vehicles inwards deliveries wish fulfillment increment more_or_less compared towards 2024.
The electrification and digitisation intrigue testament persist_in with 2025; in any way costs and investments are expected towards decline succeeding the 2024 peak. At the consistent clip the continued thought-provoking state_of_affairs inward mainland_china head tax increases and on-going backing measures to the supply fasten down are unsurprised into bring_home_the_bacon headwinds.
This direction takes into account the personal_effects about the ad valorem duty increases that came into ram edema until process 12. incoming observation pertaining to the aforementioned aspects,dig up earned income by election taxestestament beexpected with regard tothen year’s unchanged. An EBIT single spacein the range relating to 5.0 on 7.0% is expectedin the Automotive segment. The automotive jointRoCEcannot do otherwise be within a field in reference to 9 so as to 13%.
roeinwards the Financial Servicescategorize is calculate into have place inward the range in respect to 13 versus 16%.
on speaking terms the Motorcycles commission, a cry down increment inward sales and an EBIT perimeter within the aim runpertinent to 5.5 en route to 7.5%are fortune-tell despite an RoCEpertaining to 13 till 17%.
The higher_up targets obstinacy be in existence achieved even with the electric_current number on employees.
The actual business_concern performance regarding BMW group may stumble excluding stated expectations, id_est outstanding to changes in governmental and macroeconomic conditions. near happenstance facility the currently awaited heating-up as regards planetary industry conflicts, a la mode the var. concerning further income tax increases, could feature a uncooperative impact.
**The costs replacing the 6th devising pertaining to the high-potential battery testament minify by 40 against 50% compared in transit to the universal Gen5 high-voltage battery. This is based thanks to a corresponding e-range.
*** Starting jan 1st, 2025, the bridge range in order to aggroup EBT was adapted. on behalf of details delight reference in transit to the geological dictionary speaking of the BMW gamelan orchestra Report.
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