As one of the world's top car powers, the United States has ford, General Motors and Tesla and other world-renowned car companies, but if you ask you who is the largest car exporter in the United States, most people may think that it is one of the three, but the answer is not what everyone thinks, but a company from another car power, Germany, and its name, called BMW.
BMW's new car boards the ship to overseas markets
Recently, according to foreign media reports, BMW's plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, produced a total of 433,810 cars in 2021. Among them, 257876 were exported outside the United States, which also reflects that 60% of the production capacity of BMW's US factory is used for export. BMW said the export vehicles were worth more than $10.1 billion, making BMW the largest U.S. auto exporter for the eighth consecutive year.
BMW said the plant is mainly responsible for producing VARIOUS SUV models from BMW X3 to X7. The vehicles were eventually sold to 120 different countries, with the exception of some of which were shipped by rail to Canada, most of which were sold around the world primarily through the Port of Charleston, South Carolina. Of all the destinations, China is undoubtedly the country with the largest number of recipients, accounting for 24.1% of the plant's 2021 exports, followed by Germany at 12.3%, South Korea at 9.4%, Canada at 5.6% and the UK at 5.4%.
The port is stocked with new cars that are about to be exported
In addition to being used for export, the cars produced at the plant are also an important source for BMW's U.S. market. It produced 179,840 vehicles for the U.S. market last year, accounting for more than 53 percent of BMW's sales in the U.S. BMW's plant in Spartanburg, which opened in 1993, currently employs more than 11,000 people and has a maximum annual production capacity of 450,000 units.