THE VIDEO SHELF · automotive manufacturing
BMW i3 Factory Production Tour
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 HN readers recommended it
Cited as a vivid example of modern, highly automated manufacturing with few workers, and of carmakers as robotics companies.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- europeanautosource
- Topic
- automotive manufacturing
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2017
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Here's a video of the i3 production line: [VIDEO] As can be seen, they are not joking around. To me it looks like technology brought by aliens from the future.
justsaysmthng on Hacker News · 2016-04
In BMW Loses Core Development Team of Its I3 and I8 Electric Vehicle LineI can recommend this video: [LINK] "Tearing Down the Model T of Our Time - Autoline After Hours 284" and [VIDEO] "BMW i3 Factory Production Tour"
retSava on Hacker News · 2017-09
In Dyson to make electric cars from 2020
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