Mexican Media Brands
New Bimmer Development Facility is Self-Centered
BMW AG plans to open a test center for autonomous and connected vehicle technologies in Germany next year.
Share
BMW AG plans to open a test center for autonomous and connected vehicle technologies in Germany next year.
The complex, which will be based in Unterschleissheim (near Munich), eventually will employ 2,000 workers spread out over several facilities. A test track will be added later.
BMW is developing a self-driving vehicle, codenamed iNext, that it plans to launch in 2012. The 600 people currently working on the project will be relocated to the Munich center.
BMW also is planning to upgrade its current i3 and i8 electrified models in coming years. Engineering for those vehicles will be done in Munich too.
RELATED CONTENT
-
On Ford Maverick, Toyota Tundra Hybrid, and GM's Factory Footprint
GM is transforming its approach to the auto market—and its factories. Ford builds a small truck for the urban market. Toyota builds a full-size pickup and uses a hybrid instead of a diesel. And Faurecia thinks that hydrogen is where the industry is going.
-
Kroger Tests Self-Driving Grocery Delivery Service
The Kroger Co. and Silicon Valley startup Nuro launched a pilot program for autonomous grocery delivery this week in Scottsdale, Ariz.
-
On Audi's Paint Colors, the Lexus ES 250, and a Lambo Tractor
From pitching a startup idea to BMW to how ZF is developing and using ADAS tech to a review of the Lexus ES 250 AWD to special info about additive at Toyota R&D. And lots in between.
