German luxury carmaker BMW is planning to step up its production of electric vehicles , Chief Executive Oliver Zipse told German daily Augsburger Allgemeine. "We are significantly increasing the number of electric vehicles. Between 2021 and 2023, we will build a quarter of a million more electric cars than originally planned", Zipse told the newspaper's Monday edition according to a pre-released version. BMW wants roughly every fifth car it sells to be powered by an electric engine by 2023, Zipse said, compared to about 8% this year. "15,000 private and about 1,300 public charging points would have to be put into operation every week as of today.

Source: Mint December 27, 2020 13:41 UTC