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 vehicles had been bought, live-tweeting the milestone in what many will see as a light-hearted jab at Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Towards the tip of November, Musk despatched a collection of tweets regarding what he described as “orders” for his agency’s Cybertruck. On November 24, as an example, the billionaire merely tweeted “200ok,” adopted by “250ok” just a few days later.
The tweets have generated quite a lot of dialogue, especially regarding what Musk actually means by the word “orders.”
BMW started tweeting a collection 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 a proof that half one million BMW Group electrified autos had been bought. It stated this equates to 1 each 4 minutes.
“Half one million autos is the perfect proof: our broad vary of electrified autos is assembly precise buyer wants,” Oliver Zipse, chairman of the board of administration at BMW, stated in an announcement issued Thursday.
Zipse added that the enterprise “was stepping up the tempo considerably” and aiming to have one million electrified autos on the street “inside…