From 2024, BMW will not produce any internal combustion engines in Munich
A year ago, the Munich-based car manufacturer BMW announced in a press release that it would from 2024 build the combustion engines on others will. Now the production manager Milan Nedeljkovic has confirmed this step to the Reuters news agency. Petrol and diesel engines are to continue to be built at the BMW plant in Munich until 2024. From 2024, production will be taken over by plants in Hams Hall, Great Britain and Steyr in Steyrmark in Austria. Only electric motors will then be built in Munich.
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Next to the engine factory will be in the main factory in Munich also built complete cars. BMW produces all models of the mid-range 3 and 4 series here. In addition to vehicles with combustion engines, this also includes the fully electric BMW i4. BMW positions the BMW i4 eDrive 40, which costs at least 58,000 euros, as an opponent to the Tesla Model 3. It is not known when the manufacturer will switch entirely to electric cars. From the year 2025 the German company will bring the “Neue Klasse” onto the market. From the year 2023, BMW will offer at least one electric car in every vehicle class, so that one is prepared for a ban on internal combustion engines. Specifically, the following electric cars will be available from BMW from 2023:
- Small cars: Mini and BMW i3, with the i3 being discontinued indefinitely in 2024.
- Compact class: Mini Countryman and the SUV BMW iX1,
- Middle class: The SUV BMW iX3 and the sedan BMW i4,
- Luxury class: sedans BMW i5 and i7 as well as the SUV BMW iX
The car manufacturer operates four other plants in Germany. I am BMW plant in Regensburg only compact BMWs are manufactured. The BMW 1 Series, the BMW X1 and X2 SUVs are currently rolling off the assembly line here. Similar to production in the Upper Palatinate, compact models are also built at the BMW plant in Leipzig. These include the Van 2 Active Tourer and the BMW i3 electric car. In future, Leipzig BECOMES the first location where, in addition to BMWs, the Countryman of the Mini brand belonging to the group is manufactured. BMW builds motorcycles in Berlin. The largest BMW plant in Germany is located in Dingolfing near Munich and produces 5, 6, 7, 8 and the iX electric car.
BMW manufactures electric cars in Germany and China
The two electric cars BMW i4 and the BMW iX, which cost at least 80,000 euros, have been built in Germany since this year. But it is also an electric car from BMW that is produced exclusively in China. The fully electric version of the X3 SUV is built in Shenyang and sold from there. The mid-range SUV iX3, which costs around 67,300 euros, is to be produced as close as possible to the main sales market, which is why the decision was made in favor of China. In addition, the costs for BMW are lower. Will also be in the future some Mini brand models from China come. From 2023 onwards, Mini will be relying on one Cooperation with the Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motors.
But since 1994 BMW has only been building some models outside of Germany. All SUVs from the X3 to the X7 are built in Spartanburg, North Carolina, USA and exported from there all over the world. From the end of 2021, the new 2 Series Coupe will only roll off the assembly line in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, as North America is the main sales market for coupes.
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Collection for the end of production of BMW internal combustion engines in Germany:
- BMW has announced that it will no longer build internal combustion engines at the main plant in Munich from 2024. All diesel and gasoline engines will then be manufactured in Steyr, Austria and Hams Hall, Great Britain.
- From 2023, BMW will offer at least one electric car in every vehicle class, so that we are prepared for a ban on internal combustion engines.
- In addition to the small car Mini, the range then includes a compact SUV called iX1, the luxury SUV iX and the sedans i4, i5 and i7.
- It remains unclear when BMW will only build electric cars.
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Sources: Reuters, BMW (1), BMW (2), Bimmer today
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