BMW i5 M60 xDrive Becomes BMW Group’s Two Millionth EV Built

A single bonnet badge has just written itself into the history books in Lower Bavaria, where a stunning Tanzanite Blue BMW i5 M60 xDrive saloon has rolled off the assembly line as the two millionth all-electric vehicle ever produced by the BMW Group. The anniversary car was hand-finished at the marque’s sprawling Dingolfing facility and is now bound for a customer in Spain, marking yet another major milestone in the German manufacturer’s rapid march into the battery-electric era. It is a fitting flagship for such a moment, blending muscular M Performance credentials with the silent shove that only a fully electric drivetrain can deliver.

Plant Dingolfing has quietly become the beating heart of BMW’s electric ambitions, having kicked off series production of zero-emission models back in 2021 with the launch of the imposing iX crossover. The site now assembles the broadest line-up of battery-electric machinery anywhere within the BMW Group, building the iX, both the saloon and touring estate variants of the i5, and the flagship i7 limousine all on the same shop floor. More than 320,000 all-electric BMWs have left the factory gates at Dingolfing since production began, which works out to almost one in every six battery-powered cars the group has ever delivered worldwide.

The pace of the transition has accelerated sharply over the past twelve months, with battery-electric models accounting for upwards of a quarter of every vehicle produced at the Bavarian site during 2025. That figure underlines how quickly electrification has gone from a niche curiosity to a mainstream production priority on the German automaker’s busiest assembly lines. Every workstation, every robot, and every craftsman handling the bodies-in-white at Dingolfing now plays a part in turning out cars that draw their power from cells rather than combustion chambers.

Underpinning all of this is the BMW iFACTORY philosophy, a flexible manufacturing blueprint that allows cars with petrol, diesel, plug-in hybrid, and pure electric powertrains to be built in any order on the very same production line. This mixed-build approach gives BMW the ability to flex output up or down to match shifting demand without halting lines or retooling entire factories, a serious commercial advantage in such a fast-moving market. Every German BMW Group plant has been turning out at least one fully electric model for several years now, meaning silent-running motor cars are no longer the exception but very much the rule across the manufacturer’s domestic operations.

The wider impact of these efforts reaches well beyond the BMW Group’s own balance sheet, with Germany now firmly established as the second-largest production base for electric cars anywhere in the world, thanks in no small part to the volumes pouring out of facilities like Dingolfing. The arrival of the two millionth all-electric BMW serves as a powerful marker of how far the brand has travelled in just a few short years, from cautious early experimentation with the original i3 city car to a sprawling line-up of battery-driven saloons, estates, and crossovers wearing the famous blue and white roundel. With the i5 M60 xDrive now leaving the factory gates in Spanish-bound trim, the next million BMW EVs already feel within easy reach.