BMW Technology

BMW’s Car2Car research project has delivered a striking result, proving that a scrapped car can be reborn as high-grade steel for a brand new one. Working alongside a broad consortium of partners, the BMW Group has shown that closing the loop on car materials is achievable on an industrial scale, …

BMW has torn up the online order form. The brand is the first carmaker to plant its full vehicle configurator inside OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Fancy speccing your next BMW without wading through menus? Now you simply talk to it. Type or speak, on a phone or a desktop, and the car …

BMW’s diesel engines have a new drink of choice, and not a drop of it came from an oil well. The marque has signed an agreement with Italian energy firm Eni to run the BMW diesel cars in its corporate fleet on HVOlution, a renewable diesel brewed entirely from plant …

With the new BMW X5, the BMW Group is rolling its whole-life sustainability playbook onto yet another model in the range. The thinking is simple but far-reaching, tracking the carbon footprint at every stage a car passes through. That means scrutinising the supply chain, the factory floor, the miles on …

BMW drivers have now covered more than 200 million kilometres hands-free using the BMW Highway Assistant. The system slots into daily use across several model ranges, including the 5 Series, 7 Series, iX, X5, X6, X7 and XM, alongside the new BMW iX3. On the motorway, it allows hands-free driving …