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 ...

The final BMW i8 rolled off the assembly line in Leipzig, Germany, late last week, according to German-language website Bimmertoday. The last car, an i8 Roadster, was painted Portimao Blue by BMW ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When he joined the BMW production staff in 1994, Chad Johnson had never built a car. Nor had anyone else on that original crew. "We were used-car salesmen, cooks, college kids, mechanics, cotton mill ...

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 ...

The company has agreed to a 10-year deal to buy as much as 4.4 megawatts of electricity from a biogas plant about 80 kilometers from its factory northwest of Pretoria, the South African capital.