BMW Munich plant ceases ICE automobile manufacturing in 2027. Begins Neue Klasse EVs in 2026

BMW Munich plant to stop ICE automobile manufacturing in 2027

Neue Klasse EVs might be made on the website from 2026, closing the curtain on 75 years of combustion engine output

The BMW plant in Munich will produce solely electrical automobiles from 2027, following a €650 million (£560m) funding to increase and improve the 102-year-old website.

The German agency has confirmed that it’s going to produce the primary of its radical new Neue Klasse EVs – a saloon that can function the next-generation 3 Collection – in Munich from 2026.

Initially that automobile might be produced on the Bavarian facility alongside ICE fashions, however by the next yr, the plant might be absolutely devoted to EVs – though BMW has but to specify which fashions it would produce.

The €650m funding has concerned the development of 4 new buildings, together with a brand new car meeting line and a brand new physique store.

To create area for that, combustion engine manufacturing has been moved to Hams Corridor within the UK and Steyr in Austria.

The change to EV manufacturing in 2027 will finish 75 years of ICE automobile manufacturing in BMW’s residence city.

The manufacturing facility was opened in 1922 and initially produced bikes till automobile manufacturing moved there from Eisenach in 1952. The primary automobile constructed at Munich was the 501.

At current the three Collection (together with the Touring property, M3 and plug-in hybrid 330e and 320e fashions) is constructed on the website, together with the 4 Collection Gran Coupé (together with the electrical i4). Munich produces round 1000 automobiles per day.

BMW will even produce Neue Klasse EVs in Debrecen, Hungary, from 2026, and they’ll later be inbuilt Shenyang, China, and San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

Supply: AutoCar UK, https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/e…roduction-2027