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BMW halts its ICE production, in Germany at least

Electrek

German automaker BMW has finally called it a wrap on the production of internal combustion engines, in its own country at least. Now its main Bavarian plant will be converted for the production of EVs only, while the company relocates its ICE production to the UK and Austria.

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BMW Motorrad presents the BMW CE 04 Vagabund Moto Concept

Electric Cars Report

While the international customising scene around BMW Motorrad primarily devotes its inspiring creativity, excellent craftsmanship and continuous flow of new ideas to the BMW Motorrad Heritage models R 18 and R nineT, an exceptional project based on the BMW CE 04 has now taken shape in Austria.

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Electric Vehicle Arteries (EVA+) fast charging: Enel, Verbund, Renault, Nissan, BMW & Volkswagen partner in Italy & Austria

Green Car Congress

Enel, as coordinator, and Austria’s main utility Verbund are collaborating on a fast-recharging network project in Italy and Austria, alongside some of the world’s largest EV carmakers including Renault, Nissan, BMW and Volkswagen Group Italia (represented by Volkswagen and Audi). A grant agreement worth a maximum of €4.2

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BMW orders two more ENGEL moulding machines for body shell components for i3 EV

Green Car Congress

BMW has awarded ENGEL Austria another contract to supply system solutions to BMW’s Leipzig factory, where ENGEL duo injection moulding machines are used to manufacture car body shell components for the BMW i3 electric vehicle. At its technology center for lightweight composites, which opened in 2012 in St.

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Semiconductor shortages halt BMW and Daimler production lines

Teslarati

The global semiconductor shortage is halting production lines of both BMW and Daimler’s facilities in Germany. BMW announced that the semiconductor shortage affected production by around 10,000 units this week, and the problems are expected to continue into next week. The company delivered 2.324 million cars last year.

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New BMW Brilliance engine plant with light metal foundry in China; high-voltage battery production to come

Green Car Congress

BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) opened a new engine plant with a light metal foundry in Shenyang today. The new location will produce the latest generation of the BMW TwinPower Turbo three and four-cylinder gasoline engines and forms part of the BBA production network based in Shenyang in Northeastern China.

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BMW using ams data acquisition IC for battery management system in i3

Green Car Congress

BMW is using the AS8510 , an integrated automotive data acquisition front-end integrated circuit (IC) from ams AG, a leading provider of high performance analog ICs and sensors, to provide extremely accurate battery voltage and current measurements in its i3 electric vehicles (EVs).

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