BMW’s US Customers Are Picking Up Its Plug-In Hybrids At A High Rate

While Mercedes-Benz is enjoying a banner sales year, BMW can boast to be the biggest seller of plug-in hybrid vehicles in sales percentage in the United States.

Throughout the first half of 2016, a total of 2,880 i3s were sold in the US, alongside 620 i8s, 137 examples of the brand new 330e sedan and 2,577 units of the plug-in hybrid X5.

All told, these figures represent a 3.5 per cent of all BMW and Mini sales in the U.S. from January through to June this year.

Volvo, meanwhile, has only been selling PHEVs in the United States for some 11 months. In the past six months alone, it sold a total of 1,006 examples of the XC90 T8 ‘Twin Engine’, making up 2.8 per cent of its total sales.

While Nissan and GM have both sold significantly more plug-in hybrids than Volvo, at 5,793 and 11,587 units respectively, these figures only represent 0.7 and 0.8 per cent of their total sales, hence why they don’t occupy first and third on this list.

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