Following the decision to produce the
2018
10,600 employees
The history of the Zuffenhausen site began eighty years ago when the company known as Dr. Ing. h.c. F.
Tens of thousands of tons of steel have gone into making the new body shop, paint shop, and conveyor bridge as well as the halls for assembly and logistics, electric drive, and axle production. That’s roughly the amount needed to make one hundred thousand 911
Conveyor system
Length: 2,920 feet
Levels: 2
Facade: 183,000 square feet
Windows: 2
The view from inside the new conveyor bridge reveals a lot of activity at
Assembly and logistics
Excavated earth: 314,000 cubic yards
Height: 125 feet
Depth below ground: 82 feet
Gross floor area: 667,000 square feet
Hall volume: 471,000 cubic yards
Prefab components: 2,760
Spacious quarters for the
Paint shop
Length: 709 feet
Height: 92 feet
Material: 7,600 tons of steel
Final work on the interior—including the floor and ceiling—of the paint shop designed specifically for the
Creative ways of stretching space
“The heart of
The timetable alone is ambitious. In late 2015
Looking out at the expansion work, Luth speaks of a “gigantic challenge.” And King adds: “Given these framework conditions, what we have is not only the biggest but also the fastest-moving construction site in
Body shop
Hall volume: 419,000 cubic yards
Gross floor area: 700,000 square feet
Height: 98 feet
Material: 22,000 tons of steel, 46,000 cubic yards of concrete
The new body shop is the second-largest building complex at the site, surpassed only by the
Sustainable cars from sustainable production
The electric drive systems and axles for the first e-
By Sebastian Missel, Frieder Pfeiffer
Photos by Markus Bolsinger, Marco Prosch