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The new BMW 5 Series, including the all-new fully-electric BMW i5, celebrated the official start of production today at BMW Group Plant Dingolfing, in the presence of Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder. The site in Lower Bavaria, which is celebrating 50 years of BMW automotive production in 2023, has now ramped up its third fully-electric model in two years, following the BMW iX and BMW i7. Pure battery-electric vehicles’ share of total production at the BMW Group’s largest European manufacturing location is projected to increase to over 40 percent next year.To achieve this, the BMW Group is relying on flexible architectures and offering most of its models to customers around the world with different drive train variants. The BMW 5 Series – like the BMW 7 Series and BMW X1 before it – will be available with a fully-electric drive train or internal combustion engine, or as a plug-in hybrid. This requires a high degree of flexibility, but allows the company to utilise its plants’ capacity efficiently and adjust its offering to customer demand. Nedeljković: “We are following the market. Customer requirements determine what the actual drive train mix looks like.” This has been made possible by extensive investments in the production network. The BMW Group has invested more than one billion euros in integrating the BMW iX, BMW 7 Series and BMW 5 Series at the Dingolfing vehicle plant.
Riot police push back a group of protesters at a Pride march in Belgrade. Organisers of EuroPride, a pan-European event taking place this year in the Serbian capital, are determined to hold it despite a ban by authorities for security reasons. IMAGES
Images of the Russian Supreme Court building in Moscow. Russia's Supreme Court will consider a request to shut down Memorial, the country's most prominent rights group and chronicler of Stalin-era purges and contemporary political persecutions. IMAGES
Facing difficult conditions, the Porsche GT Team has achieved its third win of the season in the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC. At the six-hour race in Bahrain, Frenchman Kévin Estre and Neel Jani from Switzerland in the No. 92 Porsche 911 RSR narrowly beat their works driver colleagues Gianmaria Bruni from Italy and Austrian Richard Lietz. Thanks to the one-two result in the Kingdom of Bahrain on the Persian Gulf, Porsche has moved into the lead of the manufacturers’ championship before the final round of the season. In the GTE-Am class, the customer teams Dempsey-Proton Racing and Project 1 claimed podium steps with their ca. 515 PS nine-eleven cars.
Panama City, Sep 8 (EFE).- A goal by Jesús Corona was enough for Mexico to equalize 1-1 Wednesday with Panama and continue in the lead in the Concacaf qualifying rounds for the World Cup in Qatar. B-ROLL OF SOCCER FANS CHEERING FOR THEIR TEAMS DURING A MATCH BETWEEN PANAMA AND MEXICO, AT ROMMEL FERNANDEZ STADIUM, IN PANAMA CITY, PANAMA.
Quito, Ecuador May 26 (EFE). - Weightlifter Neisi Dajomes is one of the strengths of Ecuadorian sport in Tokyo and has two objectives for the Olympics: the first, to arrive in the best conditions and without injuries, and the second, to improve her marks and place herself in the top five in her category.FOOTAGE PROVIDED BY THE ECUADORIAN WEIGHTLIFTER NEISI DAJOMES
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