Focus on automotive: Production
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13/12/2019Tesla plans to build 500,000 electric vehicles a year at its new factory on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany's Bild newspaper reported. Tesla's plant will create 10,000 jobs, Bild said, citing planning documents to develop the site which is as large as 420 soccer pitches. Construction will start in 2020. Last month, Tesla Ceo Elon Musk said that... -
10/12/2019McLaren Automotive's upcoming Plug-in hybrid supercar will be based on a new, dedicated platform, said Ceo Mike Flewitt in Detroit last week for an event. Flewitt said the car will launch toward the end of 2020. The as-yet-unnamed vehicle will not be the automaker's first hybrid, but the decision to create an integrated hybrid platform is a... -
06/12/2019Production of Volkswagen's new T-Roc Cabriolet starts Wednesday at the Osnabrück plant, in Germany. The plant's facilities, including production, assembly and logistics have been extensively modernised for a high double-digit million euro amount for the production of the Volkswagen brand's only convertible. Jörg Müller, the management team... -
03/12/2019The BMW Group is investing around 400 million euros in its Dingolfing vehicle plant for production of the BMW iNext. In doing this, it is preparing for the manufacture of pure battery-electric and highly automated BMW cars at its largest European production location. With the launch of the BMW iNext in 2021, Plant Dingolfing will be capable of... -
28/11/2019Volkswagen on Tuesday delivered the 100,000th e-Golf in the Gläserne Manufaktur Dresden. Production of the e-Golf began in Wolfsburg in 2014. Due to the high demand, the model has additionally been built in the Gläserne Manufaktur Dresden for more than two and a half years. The new ID.3 will roll off the assembly line in Dresden from next fall... -
28/11/2019As the country’s largest luxury car manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz looks back on a 25 year long history in India with a local assembly site and its local entity Mercedes-Benz India. In 1994, Mercedes-Benz Cars started assembling cars locally. Back then, the production site was located in the Tata Motors (Telco) premises. In 2009, Mercedes-Benz India... -
27/11/2019Volkswagen Group is making faster progress towards sustainable and efficient production. At the same time, the company continues to make good progress towards reducing its production costs. In pursuing the target of halving the environmental impact of production by 2025, Volkswagen Group is certainly in a better position now than planned, having...