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BMW i3 Factory Production Tour

europeanautosource · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Manufacturing & industrial processesCars, EVs & motorcycles

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “To me it looks like technology brought by aliens from the future.”

    Shows highly automated BMW i3 production line.

    justsaysmthng, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “BMW Loses Core Development Team of Its I3 and I8 Electric Vehicle Line”

  2. “I can recommend this video”

    Recommended factory tour of BMW i3 production.

    retSava, 2017-09 · Recommendation · in “Dyson to make electric cars from 2020”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bmw i3, factory automation, electric cars, robotics, megafactories

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