+++ E-mobility ramp-up at BMW Group Plant Regensburg in full swing
+++ Additional production volume means adding night shift,
three-shift operation
+++ Plant Director Armin Ebner on start of production:
“Day of encouragement for the team”
Regensburg. It has only been a few weeks since the
first photos of the all-new BMW X2 went around the world: Now, it is
rolling off the assembly line at BMW Group Plant Regensburg. From now
on, different types of drive train will be flexibly manufactured in
Regensburg on a single production line – from models with internal
combustion engines, to plug-in hybrids, to fully-electric vehicles. Up
to 1,000 BMW 1 Series, BMW X1 and BMW X2 models are currently coming
off the production line at BMW Group Plant Regensburg every workday –
destined for customers worldwide.
“With production of the BMW X2 and its fully-electric variant, the
BMW iX2, we continue to set the pace, here in Regensburg, for the
ramp-up of electromobility,” confirmed Plant Director Armin Ebner.
“That we are now building a second fully-electric model here in Upper
Palatinate will boost the site’s production volume.” The plant
director underlined everyone is very proud of the new vehicle and the
tremendous team effort that went into it: “For our team, today’s start
of production is a day of encouragement.” After all, production
specialists in Regensburg have done everything possible in the past
few months to integrate the new BMW X2 “silently” into ongoing
standard production – from the initial prototypes and pre-series,
through extensive quality inspections, up to and including
comprehensive skills development for the whole manufacturing team.
“Our plant is working at full steam. The additional production
volumes mean we are now adding a night shift at the Regensburg
location, effective immediately – with three-shift operation going
forward,” added Ebner.
By the end of the year, the BMW Group
will invest more than 350 million euros in vehicle production in
Regensburg, creating permanent jobs for around 500 new employees at
the site.
Lean, green, digital: With BMW iFACTORY, the BMW Group is also
setting standards and redefining the future of automotive production
at the Regensburg location. For example, BMW Group Plant Regensburg is
the automotive industry’s first plant worldwide to use an end-to-end
digitalised and automated process for inspection, processing and
marking of painted vehicle surfaces in standard production that relies
on robots controlled by AI (artificial intelligence). For the plant,
this represents another step towards the digital, intelligently
connected factory.
If you have any questions, please contact:
BMW Group Corporate Communications
Christian
Dürrschmidt, Communications Regensburg
Cell phone: +49 151 6060
5194, Email: Christian.Duerrschmidt@bmw.de
Saskia Graser, head of Communications Regensburg and
Wackersdorf
Cell phone: +49 151 6060 2014, Email: Saskia.Graser@bmw.de
Media website: www.press.bmwgroup.com
Email: presse@bmw.de
BMW Group Plants Regensburg and Wackersdorf
The BMW Group has viewed itself for decades as the benchmark for
production technology and operational excellence in vehicle
construction – including at its locations in Regensburg and
Wackersdorf.
The BMW Group vehicle plant in Regensburg has been
in operation since 1986 and is one of more than 30 BMW Group
production locations worldwide. A total of up to 1,000 vehicles of the
BMW 1 Series, BMW X1 and BMW X2 models come off the production line at
Plant Regensburg every workday – destined for customers all over the
world. Different types of drive trains are flexibly manufactured on a
single production line – from vehicles with internal combustion
engines to plug-in hybrids, to fully-electric models.
High-voltage batteries for the electric models built in Regensburg
are also produced locally, in direct proximity to the vehicle plant.
They are assembled at the electric component production facility,
which opened in 2021 at the Leibnizstrasse location.
BMW
Innovation Park Wackersdorf also belongs to the Regensburg site. The
55-hectare campus built in the 1980s was originally intended as a
nuclear reprocessing facility. The BMW Group has located its cockpit
production there, as well as its parts supply for overseas plants. In
addition to BMW as the largest employer, several other companies are
also based at Innovation Park Wackersdorf. A total of around 2,500
employees work there.
The BMW Group core staff at the Regensburg and Wackersdorf locations
in eastern Bavaria is made up of around 9,000 employees, including
more than 300 apprentices.
www.bmwgroup-werke.com/regensburg/de.html
BMW iX1 xDrive30:
Power consumption combined (WLTP): 18.1-16.8 kWh/100
km;
CO2 emissions: 0 g/km; NEDC data: –
BMW X1 xDrive30e:
Fuel consumption combined:
1.0-0.7-litre/100 km; power consumption combined: 16.9 kWh-14.7
kWh/100 km; CO2 emissions combined: 23-16 g/km (WLTP); NEDC data: –
BMW X1 xDrive23i:
Fuel consumption combined: 7.2-6.5 litre/100 km; CO2 emissions
combined: 163-146 g/km (WLTP); NEDC data: –
BMW iX2 xDrive30:
Power consumption combined
(WLTP): 17.7-16.3 kWh/100 km, fuel consumption combined (NEDC): –, CO2
emissions: 0 g/km, (NEDC): –, Range: 417-449 km (WLTP).
BMW X2 M35i xDrive:
Fuel consumption combined
(WLTP): 8.0-7.7 l/100km, Fuel consumption combined (NEDC): – ,CO2
emissions combined (WLTP): 181-174 g/km, CO2 emissions combined
(NEDC): –.
BMW X2 sDrive20i:
Fuel consumption combined
(WLTP): 6.5-6.0 l/100 km, fuel consumption combined (NEDC): – , CO2
emissions combined (WLTP): 148-136 g/km,
CO2 emissions combined
(NEDC): – ,
BMW X2 sDrive18d:
Fuel consumption combined
(WLTP): 5.5-5.1 l/100 km fuel consumption combined (NEDC): – ,CO2
emissions combined (WLTP): 145-133 g/km,
CO2 emissions combined
(NEDC): – ,
