Dingolfing. BMW Group Plant Dingolfing has right now celebrated the official begin of manufacturing for the brand new BMW 5 Series Touring. The newcomer is the primary premium automobile in its section to characteristic not only a petrol, diesel or plug-in hybrid drive but additionally a totally electrical one. That makes the BMW i5 Touring the fourth all-electric mannequin to enter collection manufacturing at Plant Dingolfing in not even three years.

“Our BMW 5 Series Touring is especially important for Germany and the European market, and a lot of customers have been waiting for it,” mentioned Plant Director Christoph Schröder. But on the finish of May, the wait might be over, as a result of that’s when the brand new Touring – now in its sixth technology – will attain sellers’ showrooms and the primary automobiles are handed over to clients. The new mannequin is already accessible to order now.

Since launching the primary technology in 1991, Plant Dingolfing in Lower Bavaria has been the only real producer of the BMW 5 Series Touring, with greater than 1.2 million rolling off its manufacturing strains through the years. Like its predecessor, the brand new BMW 5 Series Touring – regardless of drive – is manufactured flexibly alongside the BMW 5 Series Sedan and BMW 4 Series and 6 Series fashions, all on a single manufacturing line. Investments within the plant for the brand new BMW 5 Series Touring quantity to approx. 80 million euros.

“For us here in Dingolfing, the BMW 5 Series is part of our DNA,” defined Plant Director Christoph Schröder, “and the launch of the new Touring represents the next step in the renewal of our successful model series.” Last yr BMW 5 Series autos accounted for a few third of output from Dingolfing. But with the Touring now accessible, numbers may rise considerably in 2024, doubtlessly nearing the 50 p.c mark.

If you might have any questions, please contact:

Julian Friedrich, BMW Group Plant Dingolfing, Head of Press and Public Relations

Phone: +49 8731 76 22020, e mail: Julian.Friedrich@bmw.de

Thomas Niedermeier, BMW Group Plant Dingolfing, Press and Public Relations

Phone: +49 8731 76 27666, e mail: Thomas.Niedermeier@bmwgroup.com

Internet: www.press.bmwgroup.com, www.bmw-werk-dingolfing.de

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BMW Group Plant Dingolfing

BMW Group Plant Dingolfing is the BMW Group’s largest European manufacturing facility. Every day it produces greater than 1,500 autos, with the BMW 4 Series, 5 Series, 6 Series, 7 Series, 8 Series and the all-new BMW iX rolling off the manufacturing strains. In 2023 output totalled some 292,000 items.

Currently the positioning employs over 18,500 individuals and has 900 trainees studying 15 professions. That makes it not simply by far the biggest employer within the area but additionally one of many largest trade and vocational coaching bases in Germany.

As properly as producing autos, Dingolfing manufactures parts comparable to pressed components and chassis and drive programs. The element plant 02.20 is house to the BMW Group’s Centre of Excellence for e-drive manufacturing, which provides BMW Group vegetation worldwide with the electrical motors and high-voltage batteries they should produce plug-in hybrid and totally electrical fashions.

Plant Dingolfing additionally manufactures bodies-in-white for all of the Rolls-Royce fashions. Its so-called Dynamics Centre, an enormous warehouse and reloading level, is the center of central aftersales logistics on the BMW Group and delivers unique BMW components and equipment to BMW and MINI commerce organisations worldwide.

BMW i5 eDrive40 Touring:
Power consumption mixed in WLTP cycle: 19.3 – 16.5 kWh/100 km
Electric vary in WLTP cycle: 483 – 560 km

BMW i5 M60 xDrive Touring:
Power consumption mixed in WLTP cycle: 20.8 – 18.3 kWh/100 km
Electric vary in WLTP cycle: 445 – 506 km