BMW Leipzig plant pauses car production to prepare for the fully electric Mini Countryman, signaling a major production expansion shift.
The production lines at the BMW plant in Leipzig are at a standstill. But neither a semiconductor shortage nor farmer’s protests are to blame for this production halt. “We are not currently building any cars, but the factory is by no means standing still,” said plant manager, Petra Peterhänsel, to AMS sister publication, Automobil Production.
“We are currently preparing for the volume expansion and integration of the fully electric Mini Countryman at the Saxony site, for which around 200 individual measures, so-called ‘speed-up measures for individual technologies’, are still being implemented.” What’s happening at the BMW Leipzig plant?
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