BMW has started construction on a new logistics centre for high-voltage batteries at its Leipzig facility in Germany.
The 12-hectare plot will produce a logistics hall for the current fifth-generation high-voltage batteries and an office building.
The first stage of construction includes a warehouse, a two-storey office building and a loading tunnel with a combined gross area of 38,000 metres squared. There are plans for a second construction stage, but the company did not confirm what these would include. The new buildings will provide workplaces for 500 employees. Currently, over 800 employees work in e-component production in Leipzig, with plans for this to rise to 1000 by 2024.
Plant Leipzig currently provides one in three battery modules for BMW’s fully electric vehicles, including the BMW iX1, the BMW i5 and the BMW iX.
