One of the many reasons I bought an i3 in 2019 was its unique design and construction. Making cars out of tin cans seems so old fashioned compared to this. A vehicle that will not rust, a body that resists those annoying car park dings, a light weight, high strength passenger cell make of carbon fibre - this is the stuff of super-cars, but you can buy one today for sensible money. It cost peanuts to run, produces no tailpipe emissions and requires almost no maintenance. The battery degradation many claimed would be a major issue has proved a damp squib- no one is having an issue.
Most ICE cars seem to be killed by electrical problems these days so "not rusting" perhaps isnt the major problem it once was. Something else will kill it in about the same time frame. That being said, that nice law Germany has about a manufacturer must provide parts for x years after a vehicle goes out of production, will really help these. Despite its flaws(nothing's perfect) the i3 is on my (very) short list of stuff i'm interested in buying.. Which says a lot. I'm inordinately picky when spending money.
As a chartered engineer I find the video remarkable. Most steps are shown from laminating the carbon fibre to final despatch of the vehicle. The automated stages are most impressive with robotic, high speed manufacture. I was surprised at the poor ergonomics with people walking back and forth to put trim pieces in their hangers. The final assembly really needs work. Far too many people ambling about with no real urgency. I know it's hard to automate this part of the process but a few good Foremen / Managers could get more out at vastly reduced cost. Overall, a superb piece of work, thanks.
Fascinating all the way through. There is so much that is striking here, a car for the future being the most important. I think that it is the beginning of the end for internal combustion. Yipee! I was surprised at how few women production workers there were at the factory (perhaps few apply?); how intricate the production engineering linkages are; how many non-production jobs (mental labouring and skilled fitting and diagnostics technicians) are created by factories like this, how quiet the factory is and the excellent safety levels attained. Finally, I want one of these cars. I was sitting in one yesterday and I like everything about the i3. I can even get used to the narrow tyres I think. This is BMWs best car as far as tomorrow is concerned. Petrol and diesel is for yesterday. Because our house is already powered by green electricity so will our electric car. Outstanding.....
I used to work at a car manufacturing plant, it is very impressive and the robots some of the size of 2 á 3 humans working with four together in a fast manner is also very impressive. Those robots are scary and majestic at the same time.
It grows on you. My car is is almost 7 years old and I’m still impressed of this technology and innovation from BMW. By-the-ways I still appreciate my 20-year old roadster and E46 coupe.
Well thank you for putting all that together, it was quite the thing. The production process, the tooling and the product are in every way more complex, a thousand times over maybe than the gear the Americans sent to the moon and this item is there so that we can go get groceries!
Check out the rhythmic sounds at 26:00, sounds like the intro to a great song! We have one of the these cars (a 2014 i3) and have visited this factory just outside Leipzig, and I like to think J S Bach (who is laid to rest only a few miles away) would be very impressed by all this German engineering.
I have one and it's a great car. Luckily I have a lot of "free" electrical charging points available here in Ireland. The heating and air con systems are rubbish though. It draws so many comments that I wait for there to be no passers by when I exit the car. It gets a bit wearisome answering the same questions.
Magnifico, 75% de personal al desempleo, y vehículos 175% mas caros, quien los comprara?Los gobiernos los ejércitos las ONG etc. me encanta la robotica.
fartman crack, I'm a joiner. i make small items of old English furniture using English native timber like sweet chestnut, elm, oak i also have to look after my 79year old mum since my dad kicked it and her heart wanted to give up too and ive had to move close to her even tho my other siblings allready do im going to look after her just so they cant get their hands on her cash which seems to be the only thing they're interested in what do you do ?
So they let humans do the simple stuff and robots do the clever precision stuff, very good. Make the quality very very high. See an old film of making a Porsche 911, men with hammers at some points.
Looks like ABB did the automation, we use ABB in our control center in chemical manufacturing, the system is really precise, we only need one ABB software engineer to maintain the code on our whole facility.
Current battery technology greatly handicaps the flexibility of electric cars. Batteries need to improve before the electric car is going to make sense as an all-around usable vehicle. Don't want to stop every couple hours to charge batteries. My time is more valuable than that. I guess you can just sit there and run the heater or a/c while you're waiting for the batteries to recharge all the while discharging the batteries while trying to stay comfortable in winter or summer. If it's a nice day you can sort of walk around and get some exercise if the charging area has such a space available. Or, you can just stop and rent a hotel room every few hours so you'll have somewhere comfortable to wait while recharging - and can probably do that for just a $100 or so. And, current production methods show this electric vehicle creates a dirtier environment because of the hazardous materials used in battery production than in a gasoline-powered vehicle and in disposal costs.
by the time you add up all the emissions to make the equipment in the factory, and all the parts, its already more than a gas vehicle put out in the 50's.
Depends on how valuable your time is. Personally, I wouldn't want to sit around at a charging station for a couple hours so I can continue on for 75 or so more miles until I have to stop again for a couple hours. Battery technology is going to need to improve greatly for this vehicle to make sense as a totally usable car. I suppose you could spend the $50,000 for this car and just rent a car whenever you need a vehicle to do what this one won't.
a dodjite u srbiju da vidie u kakvim robovlasnickim uslovima se proizvode kablovi za bmw,gde radnik radi u nehumanim uslovima za platu od 250 eura mesecno.
Electric cars?. How come nobody is worry about the millions and millions of batteries that will have to be disposed of at the end of their productive live creating an enormous pollution problem to the earth when the cars are massified in the use around the world
