BMW

“330 miles, despite an unusually large battery. The latest releases from BMW and Volvo run for more than 500 miles. The Lucid Air Sapphire is over 500, and many Teslas can get up into the 400 something range.”

“We work at BMW, and last year we deployed for six months robots on the basically body shop factory line to build cars.”

“So we had a small batch of robots that went out to B&W last year and did work every day. We ran for six months every single day.”

“The Europeans are so unaware of what can happen that they could wipe out Mercedes and Beamer. They could.”

“Jaguar was always trying to compete head to head with BMW, Mercedes, and Audi. And bluntly put, because of the scale of those entities, it was always going to lose. Because if you're the kind of person who's happy to buy a BMW, an Audi, or a Mercedes, and you'…”

“We invented a technology called real-time parking that told consumers all over the world where parking was available and licensed that data into most of the largest navigation companies globally from Waze to Google to Tele Atlas and to Ford and Porsche and BMW…”

“We have a commercial customer here in the U S we've now been running with for over five months now every day. we put this out publicly. It's with BMW. That's a fully onboard onboard system that's doing all the reasoning onboard of what the robot should do.”

“And Xiaomi in its first time submitting, going into this race making its very first car, won one of the speed records beating established companies like Porsche and BMW.”

“Half of our business is really commercial, and we build every Airbus, every Chrysler, every BMW, every HD Hyundai ship.”

“So my senior year of high school, I went to my parents. I went with my parents to a BMW dealership. When it came time to pay, the salesman naturally looked at my mom and dad. I got to enjoy the shock on the guy's face when I took out a cashier's check for 15,0…”

“And now the sort of, you know, heads up displays that you see in, you know, Rivian is powered by unreal. BMWs is powered by unity.”

“What seemed to, you know, make the slope of the downturn for the company accelerate a lot was BMW canceling this big two billion dollar order because of quality issues as far as I understand it.”

“Like, it is so much better than the stock system in Mercedes, BMW, Audi, everything except for Tesla. It's way better. It keeps you dead center in the lane.”

“Northvolt started manufacturing cells on its plant around the end of twenty-twenty-two, I believe. So, kind of, we're coming up to two years now. And if the, you know, media reports are to be believed, they're still having a huge issue with yields. They can't …”

“If I were in a Mercedes or Volvo or you know BMW, I'd be very worried. These are brands aren't going to last.”

“Companies like Mercedes-Benz, like BMW are working with our teams to develop this factory as a digital twin first, so it's a full simulation of the entire factory, all the robots, the workers, the assembly lines, the trucks pulling up, the, you know, logistic…”

“It's no good being a luxury car that nobody, that only rich people have heard of, because in order to convey prestige, it's necessary for you to know that other people know that BMW is a prestigious car brand and so on and so forth.”

“Today, our customers are Apple and BMW and Fanatics and Ford and GM and Cedar Fair and everything else and Under Armour.”

“For people like Volkswagen, they get one third of their sales in China. And I think it's similar ratio for BMW and the Audi and Benz.”

“We're going to BMW, we're going to these industrial settings, but we want to be in the home. Like, if we could be in the home today, like, home robots, we would do that. We are using the commercialization, industrialization industry as a way to get us ready an…”

“Our first announced commercial customer, they are buying robots from us to ship into their manufacturing facilities.”

“Flew throughout the world to meet with different car manufacturers. They held discussions with Mercedes, Volkswagen, BMW, McLaren, self-driving company called Canoe. If you can name the company, they thought about working with them in some fashion.”

“There was a stat which says that the number of units that Audi and BMW thought they will sell in the whole year of 23, they sold in the first quarter itself.”

“At that time, Audi was a joke. Audi was not what it is now. Like, now you view Audi as a legitimate competitor to Mercedes and BMW. Back then, it was more like how, Saab would have been treated like it was a absolute second or third tier brand that no one coul…”

“BMW, as we mentioned, 10 times more units of BMW sold than Porsches are down at 17%. In terms of gross margin, so they really aren't marking up much above their cost of goods in order to ship those cars. Mercedes a little bit better at 23%. Porsche is at 29%, …”

“Like, I think they'll fare better than Mercedes and BMW in a downturn, and, like, way worse than Ferrari.”

“If you want to sell a product into a Daimler, into BMW, it's, sometimes can take you two years to kind of really get to kind of some degree of workable sales motion.”

“Toyota is launching 16 EVs in the coming years. That would never have happened without Tesla, and I think that's applicable to Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and the rest of the automakers.”

“And Tesla is, has a BMW three series competitor and it has a BMW five series competitor and it has a BMW X two competitor. It doesn't have anything competitive to anything that Fiat makes. At all. Doesn't have a competitor, anything that Honda makes at all.”

“So Series B, let me think was 20 yeah, 22, yeah, I think it's twenty two million, if I'm right. We raised twenty two million Series B at 90 I think it was ninety-eight million posts in terms of valuation.”

“Even the, our investors from General Motors to Nissan, Renault, Mitsubishi, to BMW, to FCA. I think it's been great. And dealers, multiple dealers in the country Joe Sarah from Capital. I think people who have trusted Advent us”

“BMW sent that on to Car and Driver and asked their writers and their readers to try to figure out which was the real car and which was the drawn car, the animated car, the one created in Unity, and they couldn't tell. By the way, no one can.”

“They were launching a new motorcycle in Brazil and they wanted a top tier celebrity influencer and they have a tiny, tiny little budget. Like I think 15,000 at the time, and they wanted like two years exclusive, ah, image usage. A lot of those items are, you k…”

“We are helping brands such as BMW, Virgin Mobile, and Wendy's simplify their content production workflows.”

“The German government won't just let Waymo come take over Germany and let Daimler and BMW go under business, and the same thing is true for Hyundai in Korea, Honda and Toyota in Japan, and the Chinese companies, because there's a recognition that if all of the…”

“It's much more important whether you own an iPhone or an Android phone and what set of apps you use than whether you drive a Ford or a BMW or whatever.”

“Well, one of the big changes, especially if we're going to switch to fleet ownership, is the car manufacturers will start being a lot more like Boeing and Airbus than they will be like Ford and BMW today.”

“Another example is BMW's iBrand, an organization that has been set up very differently from the major business units of BMW trying to look at not only the manufacturing aspect, the design and manufacturing aspect of the car, which is what BMW and other automak…”

“Your friends don't care what kind of car you have, so you're not getting any social cost by keeping your Honda Civic. When your friends have like a brand new, you know, top of the line BMW.”

“We've got a company on the site at the moment, Just Park. You know, they've had investment from Index Ventures and BMW in, in the past, and Index are actually participating in this round.”

“I think what you're going to wind up having is companies like BMW and Audi are going to catch up. Tesla has kind of that one to two Your lead, and, I mean, you see it with companies, with a car like the i-eight coming out. I mean, other car companies are going…”