The BMW Group is a manufacturing juggernaut operating 33 factories producing cars and engines worldwide. If we’re talking strictly about vehicle assembly, Plant Spartanburg was the most prolific site in 2024. It produced 396,117 SUVs,…
The BMW Group is an automotive juggernaut that employed 154,950 people worldwide at the end of 2023. It’s the best-selling luxury automaker of them all, fueled by a record level of models across its three…
BMW is a German automaker at its core, but a significant portion of its cars are not built on its home turf. The Annual Report 2023 document published this week shows that none of the…
Aside from a humanitarian catastrophe, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine is wreaking havoc in the business world. The automotive industry is one of the most affected as supply chains have been disrupted, causing pauses in…
If you were thinking that BMW cars are too expensive and hoping for a price decrease in the future, you might want to think again. The rise of electric cars will bring along new problems…
Even though most car makers, BMW included, have started using aluminum, magnesium and other lighter metals lately, steel is still a big part of their production process. Since BMW decided to try and cut CO2…
BMW’s push into self-driving cars will not only target consumers, but also its own production processes. The Munich-based automaker is testing robotic trolleys inside their plants which – according to BMW – will help cut…
With the end of the year fast approaching, it is apparent that the BMW Group’s production network will be posting new record highs for the business year 2015. Due to the high customer demand and…
BMW’s Russian partner Avtotor will be responsible for assembling the new BMW X4 in Russia from kits shipped from the automaker’s Spartanburg plant. BMW already builds seven models at Avtotor’s Kaliningrad plant from semi-knockdown kit…
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