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BMW opens Bavarian battery plant 30 months after groundbreaking
Original: BMW opens its Bavarian battery plant 30 months after breaking ground
BMW has inaugurated its battery plant in Bavaria, completed just 30 months after construction began. The facility strengthens the automaker's in-house battery production capacity as it scales up its electric vehicle line-up. It also signals BMW's push to secure European manufacturing of key EV components amid intensifying competition from Tesla, Chinese manufacturers and other German carmakers racing to electrify.
Why now: The speed of construction and BMW's growing battery ambitions for electric vehicles make this a notable industrial milestone.
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