BMW CEO Oliver Zipse gestures in direction of a BMW Imaginative and prescient Subsequent electrical automotive throughout a information convention
BMW CEO Oliver Zipse gestures in direction of a BMW Imaginative and prescient Subsequent electrical automotive throughout a information convention in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sept. 10, 2019.
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The BMW Group introduced Thursday that 500,000 of its electrified automobiles had been bought, live-tweeting the milestone in what many will see as a light-hearted jab at Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Towards the top of November, Musk despatched a sequence of tweets referring to what he described as “orders” for his agency’s Cybertruck. On November 24, as an illustration, the billionaire merely tweeted “200okay,” adopted by “250okay” a number of days later.
The tweets have generated a substantial amount of dialogue, especially regarding what Musk actually means by the word “orders.”
BMW started tweeting a sequence of numbers on Wednesday night, beginning with “499,820”.
By Thursday, the tweets had ended with the countdown on a determine of 500,000, with an evidence that half one million BMW Group electrified automobiles had been bought. It stated this equates to at least one each 4 minutes.
“Half one million automobiles is the very best proof: our broad vary of electrified automobiles is assembly precise buyer wants,” Oliver Zipse, chairman of the board of administration at BMW, stated in a press release issued Thursday.
Zipse added that the enterprise “was stepping up the tempo considerably” and aiming to have one million electrified automobiles on the highway “inside…