BMW To End ICE Production At German Factory To Focus On Electric Vehicle Production

I4 Assembly at the German Factory. (Doc. Carscoops)

JAKARTA - BMW will end production of internal combustion engine cars at factories in Germany, signaling the end of the old era to sustain a new era (electric vehicles).

Quoted from the Carscoops page, Wednesday, November 15, the end of ICE vehicle production intends to reconfigure the facility to produce electric vehicles.

Actually, this news has been circulating since 2020, when the company said it was focused on electric vehicles. Later all of the internal combustion engines will be moved to factory production in the UK and Austria.

According to local media BR24, the latest internal combustion engine (ICE) produced at the Munich plant was V8 launched from the assembly line on November 10. Meanwhile 1,200 employees at the plant will undergo retraining and be placed in other roles or in different BMW facilities.

Interestingly, unlike most of its competitors setting specific dates to stop production of internal combustion engine vehicles, BMW refrains from doing so.

As is known, the BMW factory in Munich has been dealing with electric i4 production since October 2021, and will also be home to future electric vehicles based in Neue Classe.

It is planned that the vehicles to be created include Series 3 electricity or known as i3, to the next generation of i4. BMW has also confirmed that it will launch six Neue Classe EVs between 2025 and 2027.