According to foreign media reports, BMW's $1billion assembly plant in Mexico may become the automaker's first dedicated electric vehicle production center* According to an insider, the company will start to produce the next generation 3-Series electric car and ix3 electric crossover Car * at the San Luis Potosi plant in Mexico in 2027. The production of ix3 electric crossover car will start in the first half of 2027 and the production of 3-Series electric car will start in the second half of 2027.
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In April this year, foreign media reported that BMW planned to transfer part of X3 production to Mexico. X3 crossover is BMW's best-selling model in the United States. Last year, the company sold 204658 X-Series models in the United States, an increase of 55% over five years ago. In contrast, the overall sales volume of luxury light trucks in the United States increased by about 24% in the same period.
BMW CEO Oliver zipse said last month that the company would produce crossover cars in Mexico, but did not disclose the specific plan. "Mexico will play an important role in our whole plan," zipse said in an interview. "As the market demand for X Series cars is very high, you will see us produce X Series trains in Mexico at some time."
The BMW plant in Potosi, St. Louis, Mexico, was opened in 2019 to produce gasoline powered BMW 2-Series and 3-Series cars.
BMW's production of 3 series and ix3 electric vehicles in Mexico will coincide with its major product changes. BMW will build a new 3-Series model on the Neue Klasse (new class) electric platform. Zipse said last month that the Neue Klasse platform will play a key role in the growth of BMW's electric vehicle sales, "it represents a huge leap in technology". Zipse said that the Neue Klasse platform will adopt a new generation of electric drive system, "with higher power output, new battery chemical composition and battery form".
Like other luxury car competitors, BMW Group is also accelerating towards the future of electrification. BMW predicts that by 2030, at least one of every two cars sold by the company will be a pure electric vehicle. "I think we can achieve this goal even earlier," Pieter nota, head of BMW Group sales, said last month. "We are working with our colleagues in the production department to promote this growth."
A BMW spokesman declined to comment on future production plans.