BMW’s round number landed on a car GetEVCar already lists. The group’s 27 August newsroom note, matched by Motor1 and The EV Report, says the two-millionth battery-electric BMW handed to a customer was an i5 M60 xDrive built at Plant Dingolfing and delivered in Spain. The volume story underneath that handover is the Neue Klasse iX3 SUV in Europe — not a new sticker, not a new EPA figure, and not the China-only iX3 50L we covered last week.
Two million battery EVs is a cumulative count since the original i3 went on sale in late 2013. Including plug-in hybrids, BMW says around 3.5 million electrified vehicles have gone to customers in that window. Motor1’s recap of the same briefing repeats the two-millionth car and the Europe mix; it also writes a larger “electrified” total that the newsroom does not. Treat 3.5 million as the manufacturer’s combined BEV-plus-PHEV figure, and two million as battery-electric only.
Europe is where the curve actually moved. In the second quarter, BMW says European battery-EV deliveries rose 38 percent to 81,445 as iX3 supply increased. Fully electric models were about 28 percent of the group’s European sales in the first half. Since the iX3’s world premiere, one in three fully electric BMWs ordered in Europe has been an iX3, and within the X3 family one of every two orders is already the electric one. Jochen Goller, the board member for customer, brands and sales, said the brand will soon be “reaching the milestone of 100,000 new orders” — in the newsroom copy that line sits on the iX3’s European ramp, not a global BEV tally. The EV Report quotes the same sentence.
Those order shares are why the live spec block matters more than the two-million headline. GetEVCar lists the iX3 50 xDrive at 108.7 kWh, 805 km, 345 kW, and 400 kW DC, with dealer flags in AED, USD, and GBP. The UAE row is still marked Announced, not a confirmed showroom count; we already walked that dealer arrival against the Emirates charging grid on 11 August. Shoppers on the UK market page are in the region BMW just quantified. The US page is a different clock: BMW of North America’s 7 May release, not this week’s milestone note, still has the 2027 iX3 50 xDrive from $61,500 plus $1,350 destination, up to 434 miles EPA, with deliveries from 25 September. Do not convert the listed 805 km into that EPA number.
The anniversary car is already in the catalogue too. The i5 M60 xDrive sedan is listed at 81.2 kWh, 516 km, 442 kW, and 205 kW DC, with dealer availability in the UAE, US, and UK. BMW’s footnote on the 27 August note gives the i5 M60 19.5–19.4 kWh/100 km WLTP and the iX3 50 xDrive 18.1–15.1 kWh/100 km. Those are German-market type-approval bands, not a rewrite of our range columns.
The next Neue Klasse nameplate is the new i3, not a revival of the carbon city car. BMW says Plant Munich began series production of that sedan in August and that demand is steepening the ramp. GetEVCar already lists the 2026 i3 at 108.7 kWh, 900 km, 345 kW, and 400 kW DC, with US and UK rows marked Announced and no UAE currency line. The 27 August note does not add an on-sale week, a GBP or USD MSRP, or an AED allocation, so those stay unset.
China is a separate car. On 21 August we published BMW’s Chengdu pre-order for the long-wheelbase iX3 50L after an internal 1,030.2 km Shenyang-to-Beijing run. Motor1 notes China pre-sales on that long-wheelbase variant with first deliveries aimed at November. That is not the 50 xDrive in our global listing, and this week’s two-million count does not change that split.
What we are not claiming: that BMW has already booked 100,000 iX3 orders, a new US or UK iX3 price from this release, a change to iX3 or i5 hardware on the live pages, or AutoNext’s unconfirmed 18.1 percent North America drop, which does not appear in BMW’s note. The useful next step is still the live BMW model pages, starting with the iX3.
