Product responsibility.

Based on our Efficient Dynamics development strategy, the BMW Group reduces the energy requirements of every vehicle through intelligent lightweight design, innovations in energy management and consistently optimised aerodynamics. These efficiency technologies are constantly being expanded and refined.

The BMW Group reduced CO₂ emissions of its newly sold vehicles in Europe by around 42 % between 1995 and 2018 (2017: 42 %). In 2018, our European new vehicle fleet (EU-28) had an average fuel consumption of 4.9 l diesel / 100km and 6 l petrol / 100km and average CO₂ emissions of 128 g / km (internal BMW calculation; 2017: 128 g / km).

Despite a further reduction in the share of diesel vehicles, fleet CO₂ emissions in 2018 were maintained at the same level as the previous year, which is in part due to the growth in sales of electrified models in Germany. With 142,617 units sold (2017: 103,080), the BMW Group exceeded the previously announced annual target of 140,000 electrified vehicles.

We intend to continue to meet the EU emissions targets in 2020 and 2021, and beyond. In the USA, the average fuel consumption for the model year 2018 was 33.62 (model year 2017: 33.5 mpg) and the average CO₂ emissions were 168g CO₂ / km (model year 2017: 168g CO₂ / km, internal BMW calculation). In China, average petrol consumption was 6.2 l / 100km (2017: 6.5 l / 100km), and the median CO₂ emissions were 147g CO₂ / km (2017: 154g CO₂ / km).