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The paradox of Sustainable Production: Why less might mean more

Automotive manufacturers chase complex technologies for greener production, yet the most effective sustainability gains come from fundamental simplicity: making less, wasting less, and questioning whether volume growth remains viable.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Gestamp’s digital pathway to flexible, efficient manufacturing

Jorge Vázquez Cancela, I4.0 Virtual Factory Project Management at Gestamp, discusses how the company has been developing its approach to Industry 4.0 principles and the integration of digital tools into production operations to boost efficiency and flexibility

Nick Holt

Digital shopfloors: PdM powers manufacturing uptime

Automotive manufacturers are integrating predictive maintenance systems to boost shopfloor productivity and reduce downtime. Waites' Bill Kilbey explains how digital tools transform equipment reliability across OEM and supplier operations.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Shopfloor tools: Human-centric digitalisation in production

In this AMS livestream, we explored trends and opportunities in manufacturing user technologies - including AR/VR, cobots, IoT, exoskeletons, computer vision and AGVs - and how they’re reshaping daily operations, enabling smarter decisions, and strengthening the human-machine relationship.

Volkswagen accelerates AI-powered production with 5-year AWS extension

The platform now hosts more than 1,200 AI-driven applications, ranging from real-time image-based quality inspections to energy optimisation, with machine learning executed via AWS services such as Amazon SageMaker.

Anushka Dixit

Bosch bolsters North American production through cross-functional collaboration

Dr Hanns Bernd Ketteler on bolstering Bosch's North American production through cross-functional collaboration

Ahead of speaking at Automotive Manufacturing North America 2025 in October, Bosch Mobility Americas’ top executive for operations explains how greater collaboration across departments, simultaneous engineering and digital tools are helping the automotive supplier stay competitive in fast-changing times.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Christopher Ludwig

BMW Regensburg deploys GenAI to reinvent quality checks

BMW’s Regensburg plant is using generative AI to automate bespoke quality inspections, enhancing speed and consistency across its complex, mixed-model production.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Visibility through invisible connections: How 5G is weaving a new automotive network

Automotive OEMs are embracing private 5G networks to drive digital twins, automation and AI. This shift enables safer, smarter and faster factories built on low-latency, high-security wireless connectivity.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Key insights from Daimler Truck’s Twin4Trucks project

Daimler Truck’s Twin4Trucks project has provided significant insights into AI-driven data consistency in truck production. Discover how its successes and challenges in AI, 5G, and local solutions are shaping the company’s roadmap for future manufacturing advancements.

Yannick Tiedemann

Benteler starts work on advanced manufacturing plant in Morocco, boosting job creation and integrating Industry 4.0 technologies

Benteler launches advanced manufacturing project in Morocco, integrating 4.0 tech

The Benteler Group has launched construction of a smart automotive plant in Morocco’s Kenitra Free Zone, aiming to strengthen its global footprint, boost local employment and embed digital manufacturing technologies.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

BMW’s shop floor digital transformation: Driving standardisation, AI, and human-centric innovation

BMW layers lean manufacturing principles with the application of digital technologies to develop standardised, human-centric production processes.

Nick Holt

How flexibility, digitalisation and workforce agility are reshaping auto manufacturing

From multi-powertrain assembly lines and digital twin-enabled operations to agile supply networks and adaptive workforce models, OEMs and suppliers are redesigning the production floor for a future that rewards flexibility and responsiveness.

Anushka Dixit

Automating complexity: How JLR Is futureproofing production and skills

From goods-to-person automation and modular design strategies to technical training and career paths, Loretta Dittrich, logistics director for global manufacturing engineering explains how the OEM is reshaping both systems and skills to meet the demands of more customised, digitalised vehicle production.

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BMW reinvents its Munich plant with AI, automation and digital logistics to support Neue Klasse production and meet rising demand in a constrained city-centre location

Speaking at the recent Automobil Produktion Kongress in Munich, Dr. Michael Nikolaides, BMW’s SVP of Production Network, Supply Chain Management and Logistics, laid out the company’s roadmap for the digitalisation of production and logistics operations.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Nick Holt

BMW’s digital brain: Dr. Michael Nikolaides on AI, robotics and resilience in a complex global supply chain

BMW’s Dr. Michael Nikolaides discusses how the OEM is leading with intelligent intralogistics, AI-powered automation, and data-driven decision-making. From real-time reallocation to humanoid robotics, BMW is future-proofing its production network in a volatile global landscape.

Christopher Ludwig

Inside Dräxlmaier’s digital drive: COO Arno Güllering on AI, mindset shifts and global smart factory strategy

In a revealing interview at the Automobil Produktion Kongress in Munich, Arno Güllering, chief operating officer of Dräxlmaier Group, shares how the global supplier is accelerating its smart factory transformation. From unexpected digital frontrunners like Tunisia to the growing role of generative AI in maintenance, Güllering discusses his first-year priorities and why a shift in mindset is just as critical as technology.

Christopher Ludwig

How Arno Güllering wants DRÄXLMAIER Group to harness shopfloor visualisation and genAI in production and maintenance

The tier-1 supplier has established a highly connected production and logistics network, with a strong emphasis on data visualisation and a roadmap for AI. But to stay competitive and resilient, COO Arno Güllering wants to ensure both plants and HQ have a mindset ready to embrace change.

Christopher Ludwig

Augmented reality, AI, cobots and digital twins are transforming automotive production by enhancing worker training, planning, inspection and collaboration

Human-machine interfaces are becoming central to car production. With AR, cobots, AI inspection and digital twins, OEMs like Ford, Volvo, GM and Mercedes are reshaping the way people and machines interact.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

BMW develops next-level digital manufacturing at Landshut and Regensburg plants

BMW’s Landshut and Regensburg plants showcase how AI, automation, and smart logistics are transforming component production into digitally driven, future-ready operations.

Nick Holt

The rise of HMI: Human-machine synergy in smart manufacturing

Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) are no longer simple control panels; they are intelligent, connected systems that empower operators with real-time insights, intuitive workflows and predictive guidance. As HMI technology evolves, it is reshaping how workers interact with automation, improving ergonomics, safety and efficiency, while bridging the gap between cyber-physical systems and human expertise.

Anushka Dixit

As automotive manufacturing digitises, new smart factory roles in AI, data and IIoT are replacing traditional shopfloor jobs and transforming skills requirements

As automotive manufacturing becomes more intelligent, connected and software-defined, factory roles are shifting. New digital profiles are emerging, while traditional ones risk becoming obsolete.

Chris Löwer

Digital twins: Boosting productivity in automotive manufacturing

The digital transformation of production operations is continuing at pace and while there is still much more potential to be realised, the focus is now firmly on digital tools making a practical contribution.

Nick Holt

China’s rare earth magnet export ban threatens global EV and automotive manufacturing, as US, European and Asian carmakers scramble to secure critical materials

The global automotive sector is facing renewed disruption as China tightens control over exports of heavy rare earths and magnets. With EV powertrains and chips at risk, OEMs are now racing to diversify supply.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Edge computing and AI: Transforming manufacturing at the source

In modern manufacturing, edge computing is becoming a game changer, enabling faster, more secure, and more efficient operations. Steve Mustard, an expert with the International Society of Automation (ISA), spoke with AMS on how this technology is shifting traditional processes and how it’s set to evolve with artificial intelligence.

Nick Holt

How digital twins, hybrid clouds and predictive AI are enabling connected manufacturing in the automotive industry

Automotive manufacturers are racing to connect systems, optimise production and secure supply chains through digital twins, hybrid clouds and AI. But legacy systems and organisational inertia remain major obstacles. By Ilkhan Ozsevim.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Building better digital twins: Optimising visibility across production operations

PARTNER CONTENTThis content was produced by Automotive Manufacturing Solutions in partnership with Cintoo.As automotive manufacturers digitise operations and look to modernise legacy facilities, the ability to convert laser scan data into actionable, cloud-based digital twins is becoming essential.

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How Mercedes-Benz Bremen manages combustion, hybrid and EV builds while preparing for Maybach and AI-driven smart production without going fully electric

In an interview with Timo Gilgen, the Bremen plant manager talks about his understanding of leadership, identifies the challenges facing the location, and explains how the north manages to build ten different models simultaneously and why a purely electric plant is not an option.

Timo Gilgen

Future-ready: BMW’s digital transformation of its Munich plant and beyond

As the global automotive market pivots toward sustainability and electrification, BMW isn’t just adapting its product portfolio it’s reengineering the entire production operation, prioritising flexibility, digitalisation, and long-term operational efficiency. Plant Munich director, Peter Weber discusses the company’s approach to digitalising production.

Nick Holt

At its Berlin Digital Factory Campus, Mercedes-Benz is boosting its connected manufacturing through AI, cloud platforms and human-machine collaboration across its global network

At its historic Berlin-Marienfelde plant, Mercedes-Benz is building a new model of connected manufacturing. Through MO360, AI and cloud integration, it is turning data into action across a globally standardised production network

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Digital twin technology is bridging the physical and digital worlds in automotive manufacturing

OEMs and Tier suppliers are actively deploying digital twin solutions to enhance their manufacturing capabilities. This article explores the latest trends, ongoing developments, key challenges, and critical steps in deploying digital twins in the automotive industry.

Nick Holt

Hyundai Motor Group to invest $21bn in US vehicle production, future tech, energy infrastructure and supply chains, targeting 1.2m unit capacity and 100,000 new jobs by 2028

Hyundai Motor Group is deepening its US manufacturing footprint with a $21bn investment through 2028. The Group is scaling production, localising components and developing future mobility and energy technologies to strengthen industrial resilience.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Mercedes-Benz accelerates AI and robotics at Berlin-Marienfelde, transforming digital production with humanoid robots and next-generation automation technologies

At its Berlin-Marienfelde site, Mercedes-Benz is integrating artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics into automotive production. With new digital tools and axial-flux motor technology, the factory is setting new global standards for intelligent manufacturing.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Accelerating EV innovation transforms design and manufacturing processes as Toyota and Volkswagen lead cross-functional integration and digital twin adoption for future production

Industry experts at the AMS Evolution panel examine the accelerating EV shift and its impact on design and manufacturing. Toyota and Volkswagen share insights on engineering flexibility and digital twin simulation to streamline production

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Why global automotive innovators must embrace Design For Manufacture to power production in an environment of increasing complexity and fierce foreign competition

Automotive manufacturers are streamlining production with Design for Manufacture (DFM), cutting complexity, reducing costs and driving EV innovation. In In this article, experts reveal the key strategies and digital tools that are reshaping vehicle production.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

EU invests in AI to transform automotive manufacturing with ‘AI smart factories’, automation and next-generation production technologies

The EU’s new InvestAI fund will inject €200 billion ($208.4bn) into AI, transforming European automotive manufacturing. With AI gigafactories and smart factory technology, this initiative aims to drive automation, digitalisation and next-generation production systems.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Volkswagen partners with Dassault Systèmes to accelerate software-defined vehicle development with the AI-powered 3DEXPERIENCE cloud platform

Volkswagen has selected Dassault Systèmes’ AI-powered 3DEXPERIENCE platform as its primary engineering and manufacturing system. The move aims to drive software-defined vehicle innovation, enhance efficiency and unify fragmented processes across the group.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

DeepSeek’s AI model raises questions over the future of computing power, Nvidia’s dominance and automotive AI development

The fact that a Chinese startup trained its AI model cheaply caused a stock price crash in the USA. For experts, however, this is a sign that artificial intelligence can be developed more quickly - including in the automotive industry.

Timo Gilgen

Audi is transforming vehicle production with AI-powered image processing, eliminating errors and setting new standards for quality control and smart factory innovation

Artificial intelligence is accelerating transformation in automotive production. Audi’s Industrial Computer Vision is proving how AI-driven image processing enhances quality control, minimises defects and paves the way for scalable smart factory innovation.

Ronja Schmiedchen

BMW drives CO2 reduction with workforce engagement: Transformation only succeeds with head and heart

The BMW Group is driving forward decarbonisation, digitalisation and modern leadership with ambitious CO2 targets and a clear strategy. Human Resources Board Member Ilka Horstmeier outlines the economic policy opportunities and challenges in this Q&A.

By Andrea Hoffmann-Topp

AI: Enhancing predictive maintenance in production lines

Unplanned downtime is costly and something that the automotive industry has been working hard to reduce through predictive maintenance strategies. AI now offers a significant step forward in real-time monitoring and data gathering and analysis.

Nick Holt

How AI-powered humanoid robots are changing auto manufacturing at BMW, Tesla, and Mercedes-Benz

Humanoid robots powered by AI and advanced robotics could transform automotive manufacturing and production processes. Companies like BMW, Tesla, and Mercedes-Benz are preparing for a wider deployment of these robots to enhance efficiency, address labour shortages, and improve factory automation with capabilities like adaptive learning, human-robot collaboration, and real-time decision-making.

Anushka Dixit

Volkswagen de México opens world’s 1st fully electric paintshop at Puebla plant

Volkswagen de México has launched the first fully electric paint shop in the automotive industry, eliminating natural gas use and improving sustainability. The Puebla plant’s advanced automation, AI-driven quality control, and renewable energy integration is a step toward carbon-neutral vehicle production.

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How OEMs such as BMW, Toyota and Ford are harnessing data-driven decision making drive sustainability in automotive manufacturing

Leading automotive OEMs and tier-suppliers are deploying cutting-edge data tools to transform their operations. This article explores how they are using AI and big data to enhance resource efficiency, reduce emissions, and pave the way for a greener future in manufacturing.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Shape the Future: Join the 2025 Survey on Digital Transformation in North American Automotive Manufacturing and Win Exciting Prizes

The North American Automotive Manufacturing Digital Transformation Survey 2025, in partnership with Kyndryl, explores AI, IoT, and automation in production. Join the survey, win prizes, and access vital insights on sustainability, nearshoring, and workforce evolution.

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BMW’s San Luis Potosí plant in Mexico is driving global sustainability with solar power, water reuse, and AI-driven carbon reduction

BMW’s San Luis Potosí facility in Mexico exemplifies sustainability in action. From solar energy to water recycling and AI-driven efficiency, the plant demonstrates how local, effective green innovation can reshape automotive production on a global scale. Following a site visit, AMS delves into the facility’s world-leading sustainability intiatives. Ilkhan Ozsevim reports.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

How AI is transforming automotive manufacturing: A deep dive into key technologies, optimisations and efficiency gains

Automotive production is undergoing a seismic transformation with Artificial Intelligence driving unprecedented innovation. From predictive maintenance to autonomous robotics and generative design, here’s how AI is enhancing precision, adaptability and efficiency.

Anushka Dixit

Skoda’s Andreas Dick on driving flexible manufacturing, digitisation and the role of AI in transforming automotive production for future competitiveness

Two measures are at the top of Skoda’s new production boss, Andreas Dick’s, to-do list: digitalisation and flexibility. In the interview, he also reveals what impact the weak demand for electric cars has on his area of responsibility.

Yannick Tiedemann

The digital production hub at BMW’s San Luis Potosi blends electrification, AI, and sustainability to lead the way in next-generation automotive manufacturing

BMW’s San Luis Potosi facility is a testbed for next-generation automotive production. From digital twins and AI to high-voltage battery assembly, it pioneers lean, green, and smart manufacturing to meet global demands for electrification and sustainability.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Automotive OEMs and suppliers look to continued development of smart factories and the deployment of digital tools to optimise production operations

The concept of the smart factory offers highly efficient, optimised production operations. Ford, ZF and PPG reveal how they are working to realise this potential.

AMS

AMS Automotive Evolution: Reducing costs, fast-tracking development, embracing change

The AMS Automotive Evolution conference in Detroit brought together leading car makers and tier suppliers to discuss managing production operations as the EV transition continues. AMS Editor Nick Holt shares some takeaways from the event.

Nick Holt

Automotive leaders discuss strategies to bring electric vehicles within reach of the masses through cost-cutting, advanced technologies, and new approaches in North American manufacturing

At the AMS Evolution North America Conference, Ford and Gestamp leaders outlined strategies to slash production costs, tackle supply chain hurdles, and enhance manufacturing efficiency, laying out the groundwork for affordable EVs that meet consumer demand

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Smart manufacturing: Data, AI, and digital transformation

The process of digitalising manufacturing operations continues to change rapidly with new software and hardware developments and the growing application of artificial intelligence, but challenges remain in optimising these opportunities.

Nick Holt

BMW Group Plant Regensburg honoured for excellence in large-scale assembly, recognised for flexibility, digital innovation, and leadership in prestigious Factory of the Year competition

The coveted “Factory of the Year” award has gone to Regensburg in the category of large-series assembly. The plant was lauded for its remarkable flexibility, workforce dynamism, and cutting-edge digital innovation, further solidifying its place as a leader in automotive production.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

EV batteries – Increasing quality and reducing costs

A new eBook from Hexagon examines how AI and smart factories are revolutionising EV battery manufacturing, helping Europe and North America catch up with China.

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

With the hope of exponential problem-solving on the horizon, are quantum computers the future of the automotive industry?

Quantum computers promise to give industry and science a boost when it comes to solving complex tasks in the future. But how exactly do quantum computers work and which model currently has the highest computing power?

Götz Fuchslocher

How cobots can support automotive production

Cobots enrich the industry with their ability to complete tasks in close cooperation with humans and are becoming increasingly intelligent thanks to modern technologies. This article takes a look at the different types of robots, and their benefits to the industry.

Ronja Schmiedchen

Werner Beutnagel

Stellantis turns to AI tools and fast deployment to cut production costs and launch times

Stellantis chief manufacturing officer Arnaud Deboeuf reveals technologies across automation, factory planning and lineside logistics that reduce transition costs and time to market.

Nick Holt

Christopher Ludwig

Volkswagen’s plan to close two German assembly plants is an existential crisis for legacy auto – but only part of the solution

VW’s announcement marks a pivotal moment for Europe’s legacy OEMs with huge repercussions for German production and broader European supply chains. Daniel Harrison, automotive analyst at Ultima Media assesses the causes, potential remedies, and opportunities.

Daniel Harrison

Antolin, Gestamp and Fersa using AI to improve production operations

Autoparts from Spain, a collaborative digital project among automotive suppliers that provides intelligence on the automotive equipment and components industry, reports that the radical transformation of the industry supported by artificial intelligence (AI), is providing opportunities for tier suppliers, with benefits already registered by members Antolin, Fersa Bearings and Gestamp.

Marcus Williams

Global IT outage affects Mercedes-Benz production

The global IT outage that hit industries across the world today has affected automotive manufacturing across the world, causing problems for the automotive manufacturing industry globally.

Megan Kelly

European battery production needs greater speed and agility

Exhibitors at this year’s Battery Show in Stuttgart shared insights into EV and battery production challenges and how the industry needs to adapt with greater speed.

Nick Holt

Electric Dreams: Tesla’s gigafactory network and EV battery production blueprint

From Fremont to Berlin, Tesla’s gigafactories are the drivers in its goal to lead the EV market. Each site plays a crucial role in electric vehicle and battery innovation, ensuring Tesla meets global demand and maintains its lead in the electrification race.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Designing manufacturing systems for flexibility and scalability

Comau discusses assembling e-drives, developing battery manufacturing solutions, and collaborations with universities for next-generation cells.

AMS

Virtual production networks are able to solve multi-level complexities across automotive manufacturing

Virtual production networks provide automotive manufacturing with myriad solutions like advanced time- and cost-saving simulations, global collaboration capabilities, and innovative tools like digital twins to harness untapped production flexibility.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Geoffrey Bouquot is appointed into newly created position as Audi’s board member for Innovation and software-defined vehicle

Audi appoints Geoffrey Bouquot as board member for Innovation and Software-Defined Vehicle, driving its push for greater digitisation and focus on software centralisation

Ilkhan Ozsevim

PPG to build new paint and coatings manufacturing facility in the US

PPG plans to build a new paint and coatings manufacturing facility in Tennessee as part of $300m investment in advanced manufacturing in North America.

Nick Holt

APK 2024 – Increasing circularity in automotive production

Circular economy programmes are becoming a key part of automotive manufacturing sustainability strategies, but these should be more ambitious says Dr Michael Riesener, speaking at this year’s Automobil Produktion Kongress.

Nick Holt

How Mercedes-Benz and Seat are transforming their plants

Michael Bauer, regional head of production at Mercedes-Benz and Jose Arreche, plant manager at Seat emphasised the importance of data and digitalisation in the transformation of their plants at the Automobil Produktion Kongress 2024, but stressed the evolving role that people will play in production.

Timo Gilgen

Balancing digitalisation with production output

The focus of the Automobil Produktion Kongress 2024 was on sustainable, efficient and digital production methods. Industry experts from car manufacturers and suppliers discussed the future of smart production.

Werner Beutnagel

Quality control: 3D vision inspection systems

LMI Technologies offers insights into current trends in automotive quality control requirements and the technology solutions available.

AMS

Ford Otosan in Kocaeli, Turkey, demonstrates how automation is driving Ford Transit production

The Ford Otosan Plant in Kocaeli, Turkey relies on automation to deal with a very complex number of powertrains and derivatives. Plant Leader, Aysan Hosver, takes us on a tour of one of the most advanced production facilities in the world. With more than 1,200 robots throughout the site, this is how complexity

Mark Smyth

BMW builds gigafactory for Neue Klasse in Mexico

BMW Group is taking its ‘local for local’ approach to manufacturing and supply chain to Mexico, and has started construction on an 80,000 sq.m battery manufacturing facility next to its assembly plant in San Luis Potosi. The plant is due to start making the Neue Klasse electric sports activity vehicle there from 2027.

Marcus Williams

“We have a clear strategy towards electromobility”: Gerd Walker, Audi

Gerd Walker controls production and logistics on the Audi board. In this interview, he explains how Audi flexibly and digitally designs the production network and what role the target image of the 360factory plays.

Götz Fuchslocher

Artificial intelligence – New developments in surface inspection

AI and automation are becoming key technologies for surface inspection in the paintshop, but human workers are still providing the finishing touches.

Michael Nash

AlixPartners reveals 60% of automotive executives are struggling to prioritise disruptions in the shift towards EVs and software

Automotive production facing significant disruptions from EVs and software shift, global consulting firm AlixPartners’ 2024 Disruption Index (ADI) reveals.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

Mercedes-Benz has entered into an agreement to explore the use of Apptronik’s humanoid robots for its automotive manufacturing ecosystem

The carmaker partners with Apptronik to integrate Apollo robots, potentially revolutionising production lines with collaborative automation, addressing labour challenges and advancing the future of automotive manufacturing.

Ilkhan Ozsevim

“Our future viability is not a given”: BMW Leipzig’s plant manager Petra Peterhänsel

Despite the crises, the BMW plant in Leipzig is optimistic about the future: in an interview, plant manager Petra Peterhänsel explains how investments in electrification and automation should contribute to a rosy future for the location

Yannick Tiedemann

Ronja Schmiedchen

DESIGN4PRODUCTION brings together leaders in automotive production, design, and engineering

Explore the future of automotive design and manufacturing at Design4Production in Munich on 15 May and join leading designers, engineers and production leaders on Automotive design and manufacturing experts as they discuss how to accelerate innovation, efficiency and sustainability.

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JLR – Putting sustainability at the centre of its strategy

Sustainability is a key of JLR’s Reimagine strategy, but this goes beyond developing and manufacturing a new generation of electric vehicles. The OEM’s manufacturing sustainability transformation lead, Garrett Bell, shared some insights in how the business is reducing its carbon footprint across its operations.

Nick Holt

Design and manufacturing integration key to BMW’s Neue Klasse

To realise large cost and emission savings on its EV architecture, BMW is redesigning vehicles and manufacturing in parallel, and rolling out rapid digital solutions.

Christopher Ludwig