BMW’s Spartanburg plant is currently busy building a fleet of hydrogen-powered X5s, only five of which will eventually be made available in the USA.
According to BMW Blog, the Spartanburg plant will build the units, after which they’ll be shipped to Munich, where each unit will be equipped with two hydrogen tanks and a hydrogen fuel cell – parts which have already commenced production. Following that, only five models will return to the United States, but there’s currently no clear plan for how these models will be used. They’ll be back in the USA by the end of 2023.
“A fleet of five iX5 Hydrogen vehicles will be coming to the US as part of this global pilot program,” a BMW spokesperson said. “As they are still experimental prototypes, there are rules that prevent us from simply releasing them to the public as we did with past programs. We are currently devising plans to get the vehicles into the hands of as many media and other stakeholders as we can, but those plans are still in development.”