The BMW i3 and BMW i8 have a completely different assembly process than any other BMW. I remember a BMW production manager telling me back in 2014 that the factory workers say the assembly process for ...

You might call it pure propaganda, but confident young BMW worker Mirco Schwarze describes the process of assembling the BMW ActiveE electric car in a way that makes it all quite palatable. The short ...

Five years ago, managers at BMW realized that with Germany’s graying population the average age of their workers would jump from 41 to 46 by 2017. So they decided to make it happen sooner. The luxury ...

As BMW fine-tunes the robots and tooling that will soon begin building the i3—the world's first mass-produced carbon-fiber-intensive electric/plug-in-hybrid car—we were invited for a tour of its ...

Almost one month after the new generation BMW X2 premiered online, the premium subcompact crossover coupe has entered production alongside its electric derivative, the iX2. It comes to life at the ...

BMW Group Thailand is ready to expand local assembly of electric vehicles (EVs) after the German carmaker was granted investment privileges by the Board of Investment (BoI) on July 25. The BoI said ...

The unusual shape of a new assembly plant in Leipzig, Germany, will be the most obvious sign of BMW's changing manufacturing process. But the fingerlike extensions from a central point are only one ...

As part of a pilot project at BMW Group’s Munich assembly plant, the automaker has developed an ergonomic tool designed to protect workers from excess strains on their thumb joints. Using an additive ...

BMW’s i3, the first series-production car with a CFRP passenger cell, what BMW calls the Life Module, entered the European market in late 2013, and came to North America in spring 2014. Source: BMW AG ...

The new Clemson Vehicle Assembly Center that was unveiled last week in Greenville, S.C. aims to expand manufacturing research and workforce development in the area. It’s a collaborative effort with ...

BMW is building a new THB600m (US$18.2m) engine assembly plant in Thailand with its local partner Powertech Engine Assembly, BMW director Klaus Draeger told local reporters. It will be BMW’s first ...

BMW is strongly considering adding a North American production facility in Mexico. That’s according to an Automotive News report, which says the German automaker is looking at four potential locations ...