At least half of the vehicles produced in Munich will be electrified by 2023 – either battery electric or plug-in hybrid, the company said.
see photosA similar mixed assembly line is already underway at the automaker’s Dingolfing plant
BMW will stop making internal combustion engines at its main plant in Munich by 2024, its head of production said Friday at a conference marking the start of production of its electric i4 model. ICE engines currently made in Munich will in the future be produced at BMW’s factories in Austria and the UK, production chief Milan Nedeljkovic said, although cars using the engine will still be assembled at the Munich plant.
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Nevertheless, by 2023 at least half of the vehicles produced in Munich will be electrified – either battery electric or plug-in hybrid, the company said.
BMW has set a goal of at least 50% of new global car sales to be electric by 2030, and CEO Oliver Gipps said at a conference last week that the company would go completely electric if a market bans ICE by then. Will be ready with the offer. .
BMW aims to have at least 50% of new global car sales electric by 2030
The i4 battery-electric car was built on a joint assembly line with ICE and hybrid models such as the BMW 3 Series sedan and Touring, the company said, a change that saw an investment of 200 million euros ($233 million) in production infrastructure .
A similar mixed assembly line is already underway at the automaker’s Dingolfing plant, which produces the BMW IX, along with hybrid and ICE models.
Plant head Peter Weber said the new model would be given priority in deciding where to allocate the rare chips. Nedeljkovic said the company was well stocked in other raw materials.
BMW previously said it expected to produce between 70,000 and 90,000 fewer cars than it could sell this year due to chip shortages plaguing automakers around the world.
It is also committed to reducing emissions from transportation logistics at the Munich plant, the company’s largest, to zero in the next few years, without giving a specific date.
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This will be achieved by making greater use of rail transport and battery-powered trucks to transport vehicles in and around the plant.
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