After bedding in with 3 series sedan build, Leipzig built the i3 and i8 Four months after launching production of combustion variants of the Mini Countryman, the electric version is now being built at ...

LEIPZIG, Germany—In a gleaming factory here, BMW AG’s sleek i8 electric sports car glides down a robotic assembly line to stake the company’s—and this city’s—place in the auto industry’s future.

The unusual shape of a new assembly plant in Leipzig, Germany, will be the most obvious sign of BMW's changing manufacturing process. But the fingerlike extensions from a central point are only one ...