BMW is reworking its vegetation because it prepares so as to add electrical autos to all of its segments within the coming years.

This contains investing 400 million euros (roughly $437 million) in a brand new car plant on the automaker’s important manufacturing web site in Munich, Germany.

To make method for the brand new plant, which is predicted to construct a few of BMW’s Neue Klasse EVs, an current plant the place the automaker constructed 4-, 6-, 8-, and 12-cylinder engines over the previous six a long time will probably be eliminated.

The plant is the only real location for BMW engine manufacturing in Germany, and it constructed its final engine, a V-8, earlier this month. The information was first reported on Nov. 10 by native outlet BR24.

BMW is not giving up on the internal-combustion engine simply but. The automaker is continuous to construct engines at vegetation in Austria and the UK. BMW has been relocating gear and tooling for engine manufacturing out of Germany since 2020.

Whereas BMW now not builds engines in Germany, manufacturing capability for EV parts, together with motors and batteries, is being added. BMW already builds electrical powertrains and battery packs in Dingolfing, Germany, and is continuous to broaden capability on the web site.

Crops within the German cities of Leipzig and Regensburg have additionally been upgraded to deal with manufacturing of EV parts in recent times, and the engine plant in Austria has additionally been ready for manufacturing of EV parts.