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On April 25th, the Bavarian Broadcasting Company, a German media, reported that BMW's plant in Regensburg would stop production this week. According to the report, a BMW spokesman said that due to a shortage of auto parts such as chips, the BMW Regensburg plant stopped production for a week from today. In addition, thousands of 9000 employees at the BMW Regensburg plant were affected by supply problems with chips and cable harnesses from Ukraine. Under normal circumstances, the Regensburg plant produces about 1000 cars a day, in other words, the BMW Regensburg plant will stop production for a week or cut production by 6000 vehicles. So far, it is not clear whether the BMW Regensburg plant will resume production next week.

Auto industry concerns from the BMW website, BMW (BMW) was founded on March 7, 1916, is a German luxury car brand, headquartered in Munich, Germany. BMW, formerly known as BFW, changed its name to BMW after the restructuring of BFW on July 20, 1917. As one of the world's famous luxury car brands, BMW has several series of models, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, X, M, Z, I and so on. Among them, 1 series is small car, 2 series is small car, 3 series is medium car, 4 series is medium car (including convertible), 5 series is medium and large car, 6 series is medium and large sedan (including convertible), 7 series is luxury D class car, 8 series is luxury coupe, I series is BMW electric car and hybrid series, M is the high performance and sports car version of BMW. The X-Series is BMW's specific SUV (sports utility vehicle) series, and the BMW Z-Series is BMW's entry-level sports car. In terms of production base, BMW has a number of factories around the world, including Dingefen in Germany, Leipzig and Regensburg, Spartanburg in the United States and Shenyang in China. Among them, the BMW Regensburg plant began production in 1986. The factory mainly produces BMW 1-Series, BMW 2-Series, BMW 3-Series cars, BMW X1 and BMW X1 plug-in hybrids as well as BMW X2 and BMW X2 plug-in hybrids. Since the Regensburg plant was put into production in 1986, a number of classic BMW models have been produced in the Regensburg plant and have been introduced to the domestic market, such as the BMW M3 four-door sedan (E90MagneF80), two-door coupe (E92) and convertible coupe (E93), M4 coupe (F83), 4-series convertible (F33), Z4 (E89) are all produced from the BMW Regensburg plant.

On March 22 this year, brilliance BMW Shenyang, the largest production base of BMW Group in the world, also announced that it would stop production, mainly because of the control of the epidemic in Shenyang. At that time, the person in charge of brilliance BMW said: "in order to better respond to Shenyang's unified call to co-ordinate epidemic prevention and control and ensure local economic and social development, brilliance BMW has made every effort to ensure the health and safety of its employees. Always arrange the production and operation of the Dadong factory in a prudent and orderly manner according to the needs of business and epidemic prevention.

In addition, BMW also reduced the domestic and imported 3-Series, X3, X4, 4-Series and Z4 models due to a shortage of chips. on April 12, the prices of BMW's 3-Series, X3, X4 and 4-Series models ranged from 1600 yuan to 11000 yuan. The main reason for the price increase is that the automatic parking assistance system and the wireless charging and Wi-Fi hotspot functions of these models have been cancelled. After the newly produced models restore these configurations, the price also goes up. In response, BMW CEO said in an interview: "the chip shortage is still severe and is expected to last until 2023."

According to public data, BMW Group delivered more than 2.52 million vehicles worldwide in 2021, an increase of 8.4% over the same period last year, of which BMW sold 846000 vehicles (including the MINI brand) in China in 2021, up 8.9% from the same period last year. According to the latest data, BMW Group delivered a total of 596907 new cars worldwide in the first quarter of this year, of which 35289 pure electric BMW and MINI vehicles were sold, an increase of 149.2% over the same period last year. As for the domestic market, BMW delivered a total of 208507 BMW and MINI vehicles in China, of which pure electric model sales tripled compared with the same period last year, mainly from BMW iX, BMW i4, BMW iX3 and other models.

At present, due to multiple factors such as the COVID-19 epidemic and the parts supply chain crisis, a number of car companies around the world have been forced to announce factory shutdowns or production cuts. According to the latest data from the automotive industry data forecasting company AutoForecast Solutions, as of April 17, due to the shortage of chips, the global automobile market has reduced production by about 1.498 million vehicles this year, of which the Chinese auto market has reduced production by 92000 vehicles. Accounts for 6.1% of the cumulative production reduction in the global auto market. It expects global car production cuts to climb to 2.2498 million this year, of which nearly half will be cut in Europe, nearly 1/4 in North America and 197200 in China.

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