The BMW plant in Munich will produce solely electric cars from 2027, following a €650 million (£560m) funding to increase and improve the 102-year-old web site.

The German agency has confirmed that it’ll produce the primary of its radical new Neue Klasse EVs – a saloon that can function the next-generation 3 Series – in Munich from 2026.

Initially that automotive will probably be produced on the Bavarian facility alongside ICE fashions, however by the next yr, the plant will probably be absolutely devoted to EVs – though BMW has but to specify which fashions it’ll produce.

The €650m funding has concerned the development of 4 new buildings, together with a brand new car meeting line and a brand new physique store.

To create house for that, combustion engine manufacturing has been moved to Hams Hall within the UK and Steyr in Austria.

The change to EV manufacturing in 2027 will finish 75 years of ICE automotive manufacturing in BMW’s residence city.

The manufacturing unit was opened in 1922 and initially produced bikes till automotive manufacturing moved there from Eisenach in 1952. The first automotive constructed at Munich was the 501.

At current the three Series (together with the Touring property, M3 and plug-in hybrid 330e and 320e fashions) is constructed on the web site, together with the 4 Series Gran Coupé (together with the electrical i4). Munich produces round 1000 vehicles per day.

BMW may even produce Neue Klasse EVs in Debrecen, Hungary, from 2026, and they’ll later be inbuilt Shenyang, China, and San Luis Potosí, Mexico.