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BMW i3 Factory Production Tour

europeanautosource · 6.6M views · 2014-03-14 · 40:33

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Overview

A 41-minute factory tour showing how the BMW i3 electric car is built from start to finish, in the style of a Megafactories documentary. It shows a highly automated production line with carbon-fiber body construction and robots doing most of the work.

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Cited as a vivid example of modern, highly automated manufacturing with few workers, and of carmakers as robotics companies.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2017

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Manufacturing & industrial processesCars, EVs & motorcycles
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What people said

retSava · 2017-09 · Recommendation

I can recommend this video: [LINK] "Tearing Down the Model T of Our Time - Autoline After Hours 284" and [VIDEO] "BMW i3 Factory Production Tour"

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justsaysmthng · 2016-04 · Recommendation

Here's a video of the i3 production line: [VIDEO] As can be seen, they are not joking around. To me it looks like technology brought by aliens from the future.

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delegate · 2017-08 · Reference

Respectfully, I disagree. Their tech is not the cars themselves as much as the robots/software building those cars, so they have slowly moved from being car companies to robotics/tech companies. They build computers with wheels. [VIDEO] While the Americans do have a taste for disruption, these Germans have a taste for getting things done well. The wise thing to do is collaborate, which I hope we'll end up doing sooner or later despite all the barriers that some politicians are trying to raise between us.

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