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Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW)
emerged in 1916 from a company for Air-
craft Engines in Munich. Today, BMW is
a global provider of high-end automo-
biles and motorcycles. The headquarters
of BMW AG is located in Munich. Besides
domestic production sites in Munich,
Dingolfing, Regensburg, Landshut, Leip-
zig and Berlin, manufacturing facilities
are located in Austria, South Africa, USA,
Mexico, Southeast Asia and Russia.
BMW AG currently employs approxi-
mately 105.000 people. In 2013 the sales
quantity reached a volume of around
1.96 million cars and about 115 thousand
motorcycles, which are sold in over 100
countries. In fiscal year 2012, the BMW
Group achieved a turnover of around
76,8 billion Euros. In its research and in-
novation center in Munich, BMW em-
ploys about 6,000 engineers in innova-
tive research and development topics.
Service Portfolio
Electrification of the powertrain plays a
central role on the path towards CO
2
-free
mobility. The BMW Group, with its fur-
ther development of hybrid technology
and eDrive powertrains, is consequently
pushing these technologies in order to
establish electric mobility as a sustainable
solution for individual mobility.
The new BMW i3 is a pure electric vehicle
using an all new light-weight designed
LifeDrive concept. The correspondent
architecture of this vehicle posed consid-
erable challenges regarding the electric
drive components and their interaction.
In addition to the task of an optimal in-
corporation of the drivetrain into the ve-
hicle also optimum light weight prop-
erties, modular design and high quality
have been achieved and are combined
with an efficient and dynamic electric
drive system.
Corporate Objective
With the development and the in-house
production of the key components for
the BMW i3 and i8, Li-Ion battery sys-
tem and electric motor, BMW has laid
the foundations for the creation of fur-
ther exciting powertrains in the future.
The BMW eDrive powertrains are char-
acterized by their dynamic power perfor-
mance, high efficiency, smooth running
and optimized quality.
The power electronics responsible for
the interaction between the battery and
electric motor is also an in-house devel-
opment of BMW.
BMW GROUP
