+++ BMW Group readies next production site for BEV manufacturing +++ Production launch of new electric model in second half of 2025 +++ In-house production of Gen-5 high-voltage batteries to be established at Rayong site in Thailand +++
+++ Installation now begins in new halls at BMW Group Plant Steyr +++ 300 items of plant and equipment worth over 500 million euros for e-drive production +++ Pre-series production to launch in summer 2024 +++
+++ Neue Klasse sedan to be built in Munich from 2026 +++ Era of automobiles with combustion engines from Munich draws to a close after 75 years at the end of 2027 +++ € 650 million invested in securing location in the long term +++
+++ Predictive maintenance at BMW Group Plant Regensburg – AI-supported system monitors conveyor technology during assembly +++ Integrated, learning maintenance system identifies potential faults early, avoiding more than 500 minutes of vehicle assembly disruption every year +++
+++ Biggest European production site celebrates anniversary +++ Constant change as key to success +++ 40 percent electric vehicles in 2024 +++ Plant Director Schröder: “Pioneers never stand still” +++
+++ Site Manager Christoph Peters: “BMW Group’s Wackersdorf location set to become a major facilitator for the transformation towards electromobility” +++ Building constructed in the 1980s as reprocessing facility to symbolise Wackersdorf site’s electric future +++
Please find attached the 09/2023 first time edition of the Sustainability Communication Backgrounder made by AK-31. The contents are for internals but may be passed further to any colleague who deals with sustainability issues. If you have questions concerning content or handling just contact the editor. Changes are possible anytime.
+++ BMW Group Plant Dingolfing pursues various activities to promote rich diversity of plant and animal life on plant grounds +++ New “bee wagon” will help establish further bee colonies at the plant +++ Light reduction at Plant 02.91 in Wallersdorf protects insects and birds +++
+++ Eighth-generation BMW 5 Series now also available fully-electric +++ Milan Nedeljković: “E-mobility as new normal for production network” +++ Launch of 15 BEV models worldwide from 2021 to 2024 +++ Plant Dingolfing to build over 40% electric vehicles in 2024 +++
+++ 70,000 employees and guests celebrate home plant anniversary +++ Two-day “by employees for employees” program +++ Former employee Willy Astor performs +++ Volunteers work for charity donations +++ Plant Manager Peter Weber: “With this team, the transformation can only succeed!” +++
+++ BMW Group signs long-term contract with UP Energiewerke GmbH +++ Supply will come from new heating plant close to site +++ Will meet around 50 percent of plant-wide process hot water requirements +++ Annual CO2 savings of approx. 20,000 tonnes +++
+++ New BMW Group Plant Woodruff will produce high-voltage batteries for fully electric BMW X models at Plant Spartanburg. +++ Investments of $ 700 million in the construction of the new Plant Woodruff and $ 1 billion in Plant Spartanburg in preparation for electric vehicle production +++ Local for Local: short distances between cell supplier, battery assembly and vehicle production plant +++
+++ NEUE KLASSE to be released in 2025, local production in Shenyang for China from 2026 +++ BBA to invest RMB 10 billion in construction of assembly plant for sixth-generation high-voltage batteries in China +++ Global production network for high-voltage batteries based on “local for local” principle
+++ Dingolfing Plant 02.10 takes electrically heated hardening furnace into series operation +++ Site uses innovative power-to-heat technology for the first time +++ Furnace saves some 300 tonnes CO2 a year +++
+++ Pilot projects with renewable diesel HVO100 under way +++ Green transport logistics accelerate implementation of BMW iFACTORY strategy +++ Head of Logistics Nikolaides: “Every gram of CO2 we can save helps” +++
+++ Pilot projects with renewable diesel HVO100 under way +++ Green transport logistics accelerate implementation of BMW iFACTORY strategy +++ Head of Logistics Nikolaides: “Every gram of CO2 we can save helps” +++
+++ “Revolution in factory planning”: NVIDIA Omniverse enables virtual production in Plant Debrecen more than two years before actual series production is launched +++ New dimension of BMW iFACTORY: Faster, more efficient planning processes save time and costs +++ Global rollout of virtual planning +++ BMW AG Board Member for Production Milan Nedeljković and NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang deliver joint demo at GTC 2023 +++
+++ BMW Group Plant Landshut light metal foundry recertified by Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) +++ Solar aluminium meets more than a third of light metal foundry’s annual requirements +++ Almost two thirds of aluminium used comes from recycling loop
+++ Export Value From South Carolina Plant Totals Nearly $9.6 Billion +++ 416,301 Sports Activity Vehicles and Coupes Produced in the U.S. Last Year +++ Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Total More Than 16% of Production +++ Milan Nedeljković, Board Member for Production: “I am proud of the Spartanburg plant's continued performance” +++ +++
+++ Exclusive small series with limited edition of just 50 models +++ Special model to be built in craft workshop at Plant Dingolfing +++
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