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Recently, BMW said it would invest $10 million to support electric vehicle capacity, doubling its lithium battery capacity at Spartanburg, the world's largest factory. To this end, the Spartanburg plant will add assembly lines and expand the area to 7990 square meters.

The Spartanburg plant, the largest production center of the BMW Group in the world, is mainly responsible for the production of sports cars and coupes, producing the entire BMW X-series models including X3, X4, X5, X6 and X7, and has delivered more than 4.6 million vehicles for BMW in the global market. In 2015, the plant began producing BMW's first plug-in hybrid car, the X5 xDrive40e, which has so far assembled more than 45000 batteries. The $10 million expansion of lithium battery capacity will mainly be used to produce hybrid X3 and X5 plug-in models.

According to BMW's plans in the field of new energy vehicles, the company will launch 25 new energy vehicles by 2023, more than half of which are pure electric vehicles. To that end, BMW needs to double its lithium battery capacity, which will hire more than 120 new people for battery assembly by the end of this year.

The field of new energy vehicles has always been the direction of BMW Group's efforts, and BMW spent $10 million to double the battery capacity of its Spartanburg plant, which can be said to guarantee the future development of its new energy vehicles. Michael Nikolaides, Vice President of engine and Electric Transmission of BMW Group, explained: "We have invested about $10 million to install new battery assembly lines and expand the plant to 86000 square feet. This means that if the market needs, we can double the number of batteries. "

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