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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.
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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.
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