+++ Landmark vehicle is fully-electric BMW iX1 in Alpine White
+++ Plant Director Carsten Regent: “BMW Group in Regensburg builds
highly attractive electric vehicles for premium compact class – BMW
iX1 is very popular with customers around the world”
Regensburg. Today’s production landmark marks another
milestone in the nearly 40-year history of the BMW Group’s Regensburg
location, as the one-millionth BMW X1 rolled off the Regensburg
assembly line late in the morning. The milestone vehicle is a BMW iX1
battery electric vehicle (BEV) in Alpine White. The BMW X1 is BMW’s
smallest Sports Activity Vehicle – and became the first fully-electric
model produced at the BMW Group location in Regensburg in November 2022.
“The BMW iX1 is proof that we can build highly attractive electric
vehicles for the premium compact class at our plant in Regensburg.
This a very popular car with customers around the world,” says Plant
Director Carsten Regent. “To meet different market requirements
worldwide, we rely as a company on technological diversity.
Specifically, here in Regensburg, we have the flexibility to produce
different types of drive train for the BMW X1 on a single production
line – models with a combustion engine and plug-in hybrid systems, as
well as with a pure electric drive train.”
In this year’s readers’ choice for the trade journal auto, motor und
sport’s “Best Cars 2023”, the pure electric BMW iX1 xDrive30* from
Regensburg came out on top, with 8.4 percent of votes. It won
best-in-class in the compact SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) segment,
closely followed by the conventionally-powered variant of the compact
Sports Activity Vehicle (8.3 percent), which is also built at the site.
From the end of this year, BMW Group Plant Regensburg will also
produce a second BMW BEV, the fully-electric BMW iX2, in Upper
Palatinate for the high-volume compact class. “Electromobility is a
growth driver for our plant. We are currently operating at full
capacity and hope this trend will continue,” says Regent.
As previously announced in March, the BMW Group will invest more than
350 million euros in vehicle production in Regensburg by the end of
the year, creating permanent jobs for around 500 new employees. “We
are still recruiting production staff for our plant. In November, we
will add an additional night shift and transition to three-shift
operation. We are already working extra shifts on certain Saturdays,”
confirms Davide Vitolo, head of Human Resources at BMW Group Plant Regensburg.
A total of up to 1,000 units of the BMW 1 Series, BMW X1 and BMW X2
models are currently coming off the production line at Plant
Regensburg every workday, destined for customers all over the world.
BMW Group Plant Regensburg recently became 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). This represents another step towards the
digital and intelligently connected BMW iFACTORY for the facility in
Upper Palatinate. The entire plant was already digitally measured in
3D in 2022 as part of a pilot project. The resulting “digital twin” of
BMW Group Plant Regensburg enables highly efficient planning of future
plant structures and production facilities.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Saskia Graser
BMW Group Corporate and Governmental Affairs
Acting head of
Communications Regensburg and Wackersdorf
Cell phone: +49 151
6040 3232
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. BMW
is largest employer, with other companies 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: –
