Leipzig plant profile
|Vehicle production (2012):||164,282|
|BMW vehicles:||BMW X1, 1 Series five-door, 1 Series
Coupé, 1 Series Convertible, BMW i3
(from late 2013 onwards)
|Plant grounds:||229 ha|
|New buildings for BMW i production:||4 production halls|
|Investment in BMW i production:||€ 400 million|
|Energy savings from current efficiency projects:||6.4 GWh/year|
The BMW Leipzig plant has achieved something no
other car plant has attempted before: automotive
evolution and revolution under the same roof.
Passion unites us.
The mobility of the future comes from Leipzig. Teams of process and air-
conditioning engineers work together to boost plant efficiency and lower energy
consumption significantly. At the same time, this is where the mobility
and automobile manufacturing of the future are being created. The production
of our revolutionary BMW i models uses 70 per cent less water and 50
per cent less energy per vehicle produced than the average for our already
efficient production network. The electricity required for BMW i production
is generated in a resource-efficient and climate-neutral process by four
specially built wind turbines situated on the plant grounds.