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BMW will stop producing cars with fuel engines at its Munich plant in 2027. The factory is being prepared for the production of electric cars at a cost of hundreds of millions.
A stone’s throw from BMW’s characteristic headquarters in Munich is the factory where BMW started post-war car production more than seventy years ago. An important factory, essentially the heart of BMW. In addition to a lot of work on cars, there will also be a lot of work on the factory here in the coming years. It is being prepared for the production of only fully electric cars.
BMW is investing €650 million to prepare the factory for this. By the end of 2027, the time will come and the very last BMW with a combustion engine will be built there after 75 years. Not the last of the entire brand, of course, but from that factory. “Just like in the 1960s, a Neue Klasse lays the foundation on which our factory reinvents itself,” says factory director Peter Weber. He calls it the Neue Klasse, because the as yet unnamed sedan from the modern Neue Klasse is the first fully electric BMW to be built. Moreover, half of the cars being built there are already fully electric. The BMW i4, among others, rolls off the production line here.
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