BMW Manufacturing was the largest US automotive exporter by value in 2022, marking the ninth straight year the German automotive company leads the nation in exports .
We’re breaking down the accomplishment by the numbers:
- 416,301 | Total BMW Sports Activity Vehicles and Coupes produced by Plant Spartanburg in 2022 (the second-highest production total in the plant’s history)
- $9.6 billion | Total export value for those 416,301 vehicles
- 60%+ | Percentage of Plant Spartanburg X models that were sold out of all purchased BMW vehicles in the US in 2022
- 16.6% | Percentage of vehicles that were plug-in hybrid vehicles (69,200 total)
Things haven’t slowed down in 2023: Production on the 2024 BMW X5 and X6 starts in April.