BMW's main plant in Munich no longer builds combustion engines

BMW is converting the main plant in Munich to e-mobility. The group is also realigning other locations: combustion engine production is moving abroad

BMW is ending an era: the engine plant in Munich will no longer build internal combustion engines in the future. According to a press release, the group is relocating all of their production abroad. At the headquarters, the administration building of which is modeled on a four-cylinder, he focuses instead on cars with electric drives. To this end, BMW is taking 400 million euros into hand for a new assembly system by 2026. The works council praises the successful transformation that secures and expands industrial jobs in the middle of the big city. The four, six, eight and twelve-cylinder engines are assembled by factories in Steyr, Austria and in Hams Hall (Great Britain). During the relocation, which is expected to last until 2024, BMW will transfer employees to other planning and production areas in Munich and other Bavarian locations. The HR director Ilka Horstmeier: "The transformation of our plants and the future of employment go hand in hand."

A fully electric car for every German location.

"Each of our German branches will be producing at least one fully electric vehicle by the end of 2022," promises Production Director Milan Nedeljković. In addition to the electrification strategy, BMW is also realigning the production network for other reasons. The company names digitalization, the efficiency of processes and structures in addition to sustainability in production and logistics.

Hungary is building the new e-platform first

In Dingolfing, Leipzig and Regensburg, the automobile company is currently preparing to manufacture battery modules and high-voltage batteries from 2021. At the same time, capacities for the construction of the drive housing are being increased at the Steyr site. For the time being, the most important plant for the BMW Group's electric ambitions is being built in Hungary: In Debrecen, production of the new vehicle architecture, which is designed for electric drives, is to start in the future. From 2025 it will then be "rolled out in the global production network", says Nedeljković.

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