While it doesn’t exactly match the level of extravagance of the Dupai Police department, the Barcelona Police Department was the recipient of 30 BMW C Evolution maxi scooters from the German automaker, making it the first time the local police force in the Spanish city would be using electrically powered vehicles.

This is important for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is giving officers of the Barcelona PD an alternative vehicle to use for their everyday duties. That is an alternative that has had an increased importance in recent years because of the city’s growing acceptance of eco-friendly vehicles.

You can already see the transformation towards an more environment-friendly way of living throughout the city. The use of these electric scooters is just the latest step towards an environmental urban progression. It’s unclear how many of these electric maxi scooters BMW->ke1398 will end up delivering to the Barcelona police department, but I wouldn’t be surprised if more of these scooters are delivered to the police department in the coming months or years. After all, when you’re talking about a city as big as Barcelona, I reckon that you’re going to need more than 30 electric maxi scooters to patrol its busy streets.

BMW’s delivery of these bikes isn’t the only positive development coming out of Bavaria. On the business end, BMW Motorrad scored another impressive sales growth in the month of February. During that time, the German firm reported selling 9,195 motorcycles and scooters. That’s an impressive increase of 13.5 percent compared to the same time period a year ago. It’s a nice haul for BMW as it continues its sales ascendancy in 2015. In fact, the company’s sales volume for the first two months of the year has already hit 13,536 units, a number that according to the company’s head of sales and marketing Heiner Faust represents a 14.2 percent growth in sales volume in the first two months of 2015.

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Why it matters

Let’s start with the improved sales of motorcycles and scooters because that’s clearly one of the most important aspects of BMW’s business. 14.5 percent isn’t really that big of a growth number in the small picture. But taken together, it becomes a very important number for BMW as it continues to ramp up its line-up of motorcycles and scooter ahead of what it expects to be another record-breaking sales year for the company.

It’s hard to argue against the strategies BMW is employing to reach that number because whatever the company is doing, more and more customers are buying their bikes than ever before. That’s a good place to be in, especially for a company like BMW, which has put a lot of importance in sustaining the success of its motorcycle division. The improved sales number shows that the company’s doing a good job meeting and exceeding its own goals and objectives.

As far as the deliveries of the Electric Maxi Scooters are concerned, this could be the beginning of a long and sustained partnership between BMW and the Barcelona police department.

I’m actually more impressed that city leaders are taking their plans of improving Barcelona’s air quality seriously. Whereas we’ve seen other examples of people talking the talk yet not being able to back it up, the Barcelona police department is actually putting its own action plan into motion. These electric maxi scooters are going to be a bane for the city in more ways than one.

Glad to know that there are major cities out there that don’t just pay lip service to their own plans.