BMW is enhancing its operations in Brazil with the electrification of the Araquari plant. The BMW X5 plug-in hybrid will even be manufactured in South America beginning in 2024. The X5 xDrive50e will be a part of the X1, X3, X4, and the three Collection on the Araquari facility. The X5 PHEV can also be manufactured in Spartanburg, South Carolina, for world markets.

“On the BMW Group, manufacturing follows market demand. Final yr, BMW Group Brazil achieved a file of 25% share of electrified automobiles throughout the gross sales combine. As well as, the BMW X5 was the third-best mannequin of all the BMW line-up in Brazil. It’s a logical conclusion for us to announce the manufacturing of the BMW X5 plug-in hybrid in Brazil now,” says Michael Nikolaides, Head of Manufacturing Community and Logistics at BMW Group.

He added, “Our dedication to technological variety is powerful, with PHEVs persevering with to play a vital position in our portfolio. This marks the primary occasion of such know-how being launched to a South American facility. The Araquari plant is flexible, being the one location in our community producing ICE, PHEV, and Flex-fuel fashions. We will shortly adapt to provide hybrid or electrical fashions relying on market wants. Our subsequent aim is to fabricate PHEV and ICE fashions on the identical manufacturing line.”

Since commencing operations in 2014, the BMW Group’s Araquari plant in Santa Catarina, Brazil, has included a Physique Store, Paint Store, Meeting, High quality, and Logistics processes, alongside a BMW Group Engineering Workplace throughout the plant’s premises. In December 2023, the BMW Group introduced a ten% enhance within the plant’s manufacturing capability for 2024, aiming to succeed in an annual output of 11,000 items, whereas constantly increasing and coaching its workforce to deal with the manufacturing of electrified automobiles.

Plant Araquari is one of many 32 factories BMW operates globally. The best BMW Group plant in 2023 was in Dadong the place 420,586 automobiles have been produced. In second place got here Spartanburg with 410,793 vehicles whereas one other Chinese language plant, Tiexi, took third with 307,972 vehicles. Up subsequent have been 4 German factories (Dingolfing, Regensburg, Munich, Leipzig), adopted by Oxford in the UK and San Luis Potosi in Mexico. In 2023, the BMW Group put collectively 2,661,922 BMWs, MINIs, and Rolls-Royces, or 11.7% greater than the yr earlier than.