Electrical SUV – BMW begins manufacturing of the iX1 in Germany

After its presentation final June, the BMW iX1 begins its manufacturing part on the German plant in Regensburg.

BMW has began the sequence meeting of its small electrical SUV, the iX1, at its Regensburg plant on a versatile manufacturing line bringing collectively all of the kinds of mechanics supplied on the mannequin. As introduced in June throughout its presentation, all X1s, whether or not thermal, rechargeable hybrid or electrical, are certainly manufactured on the identical time. The excessive voltage batteries are additionally produced on the identical web site, which ensures minimal transport distances, even when the German model clearly buys its cells.

The German producer is due to this fact retaining to its goals indicated on the finish of September to begin manufacturing of the iX1 xDrive30 in November, even when the primary supply dates haven’t but been communicated.

The Regensburg plant has already been portray the battery cells since April 2021. It is a course of the place the aluminum casing wherein the prismatic cells are housed is roofed with a thick varnish which, based on BMW, improves not solely its resistance but in addition permits a greater thermal conductivity of the cells. By the tip of 2021, this exercise had expanded to 4 manufacturing traces and, in October 2022, the meeting of high-voltage batteries started in parallel. On the finish of final yr, greater than 400 folks work on this manufacturing unit.

“We’re following the plan. By 2024, a minimum of one in three BMWs leaving our Bavarian factories shall be electrical,” assures Milan Nedeljković, member of the Manufacturing Board of Administrators. Carsten Regent, head of the Regensburg manufacturing unit, provides: “The electrification and the transformation of the manufacturing unit make me optimistic for the longer term. Our objective now, particularly with the iX1, is to proceed to impress our prospects world wide with the vehicles we produce.”

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