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03/18/2025
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AUDI AG Ingolstadt
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Audi has built cars at the Ingolstadt site for 75 years. This is where AUDI AG has its headquarters; around 40,000 employees (as of December 31, 2024) work in Ingolstadt to achieve “Vorsprung durch Technik”.

From the initial idea to the finished automobile, the entire production process for the Audi Q2*, Audi A3, Audi A6 e-tron*, and Audi Q6 e-tron* takes place at the Ingolstadt plant. The Audi Ingolstadt location continues to develop into a networked digital factory for the electrified future. Modern production systems and high-tech solutions enable highly efficient, sustainable manufacturing. With the Audi A6 e-tron* and Audi Q6 e-tron*, two fully electric models are rolling off the line in Ingolstadt. By making the assembly lines more flexible across the board and thanks to a battery assembly facility located nearby, the location is well prepared for the gradual shift to electric mobility and production of additional fully electric models.

The largest production facility in the Audi Group is the economic engine of the region and, as the primary plant and a high-tech site, it brings five locations together in one think tank:

  • Audi Ingolstadt factory (headquarters with Technical Development)
  • Münchsmünster manufacturing site (module/system production and press shop)
  • Audi Neuburg high-tech area
    • Headquarters of Audi Sport GmbH
    • Headquarters of Audi Formula Racing GmbH
    • Technical Development divisions with a focus on driver assistance systems and integrated safety (FAS/IS)Audi driving experience center
    • Home of Ducati Motor Deutschland GmbH
  • Proving grounds Neustadt a. d. D. (high-security area of Technical Development)
  • incampus technology park (Audi Vehicle Safety Center and Data Center)

At the Audi Forum Ingolstadt, the company’s headquarters, Audi presents its products, its tradition, and its social commitment. The Audi Forum is designed as a center for personal encounters between customers, employees, and visitors from all over the world. It offers a wide range of services: experiential tours of the plant, exhibitions in the Audi museum mobile, catering, and experiential pick-ups for new car customers. There are also concerts and other events, a selection of films in the Audi cinema, the Audi shop, and the museum store.

incampus technology park: incampus is a high-tech area to the southeast of Ingolstadt. Audi and its partners are working on the future of mobility on this former refinery site. The site includes the Vehicle Safety Center, an Audi IT Center, and offices for Volkswagen’s software company Cariad, among other things. The remediation of the heavily contaminated site was a collaboration between the public sector and Audi.

  • The Audi Vehicle Safety Center enables tests that go well beyond the current requirements in the various markets. This allows the facility to be flexibly adapted to future developments. Among other things, the site has run-up tracks with a total length of 250 meters, a mobile 100-ton crash block, and the ability to make two vehicles collide at a 90-degree angle. Additional state-of-the-art equipment, with everything from high-speed cameras to energy-efficient LED lighting systems, supports the team on-site in their work. A dummy lab, component test stands, workshops, and offices complete the Vehicle Safety Center.
  • The IT Center supports AUDI AG’s future-oriented projects with ultra-modern hardware and software. The nearly 10,000 square meters of floor space house around 800 servers and data cabinets.
  • The Energy Control Center provides power and controls the modular energy concept for incampus, based on three cornerstones: a water-based pipeline system, reversible heat pumps, and a cross-energy concept. The buildings on incampus are heated with waste heat from other buildings, such as the IT Center, through the pipeline network and reversible heat pumps. This conserves energy and upcycles energy that would otherwise go to waste unused. A former fire extinguishing basin from the refinery era is being converted into a long-term thermal storage facility to utilize excess heat energy. This gravel water storage system also serves as an example for an EU research project.
  • Cariad has a Competence Center at incampus. The technology park offers IT experts from the software company an attractive working environment.
  • The city of Ingolstadt and Audi have used cutting-edge technology to revitalize and remediate an industrial wasteland, a former refinery site, without sealing additional areas.
  • This renaturalization project is one of the largest in Germany.

Smart city and mobility of the future: Audi is planning for the future and has joined up with the city of Ingolstadt and other partners to work on innovations in mobility for the Ingolstadt region. The spectrum ranges from measures for appealing cycling options and public transport initiatives to the use of 5G technology. This is how Audi supported the research projects IN2Lab and 5GoIng. During the term of these research initiatives, a safeguard system for automated driving functions was developed and a test field was created in which complex traffic junctions and new communication technology were integrated. The test track links incampus with the Ingolstadt South highway junction and leads seamlessly to the Digital Testing Area Autobahn on the A9. Networked and automated driving functions are tested there on the section between Nuremberg and Munich.

Audi has also participated in a virtual test field for connected and autonomous driving in urban traffic in Ingolstadt. In a project called SAVeNoW, the partners used a realistic model of the city of Ingolstadt to examine traffic aspects such as efficiency and safety and to test the benefits of autonomous driving functions. The simulations and the sensor data collected support innovative traffic planning.

Audi is also involved in initiatives to optimize bus and rail traffic. There has been a train station on the factory grounds since the Ingolstadt Audi stop opened in 2019. The joint project of the Free State of Bavaria, the city of Ingolstadt, Deutsche Bahn, and AUDI AG is sustainably improving mobility solutions. Audi employees living in the vicinity take an environmentally friendly train ride to work without traffic jams or searching for parking spots.

With a specially developed digital tool, Audi is supporting a project to make local public transport in the region even more attractive. The so-called residential cluster records commuter flows at Audi and is also available to the project partners. The project leverages these values, which, together with supplemented mobility data, helps to expand local public transport services in targeted ways.

Audi has also been advancing future-oriented mobility at its sites in Germany, thanks to a network with charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. Building on the first charging points created in 2018, the company is also continuing to expand this network at the Ingolstadt location. As of December 31, 2024, Audi is operating more than 3,100 charging points at its German locations. This includes internal charging points (e.g., for research vehicles) and charging points for employees and visitors. At the Ingolstadt location, external charging points are available in AUDI AG parking garages and near the Audi Forum Ingolstadt. Audi is also promoting additional charging facilities in Ingolstadt. For example, the Ingolstadt utility company plans to build a quick-charging park on the incampus site.

Münchsmünster

Audi efficiently packs high technology into a 54-hectare site in Münchsmünster in the Center of Excellence for high-tech suspension, aluminum structural, and pressed parts. This site has been using innovative production methods since 2013 to produce form-hardened sheet metal items and aluminum die castings for lightweight construction. The module/system assembly operations and press shop in Münchsmünster are an important aspect of automotive manufacturing in Ingolstadt. More than 700 employees work there in three shifts. In 2024, approximately 15 million automotive parts were manufactured there.

Neuburg

Audi Neuburg is home to the Audi Driving Experience, Audi Sport GmbH, Audi Formula Racing GmbH, and Ducati Motor Deutschland GmbH. The Technical Development division also tests driver assistance and safety systems here. The 47-hectare high-tech Audi site is located in Neuburg an der Donau, about 20 kilometers west of Ingolstadt. The site provides a total of more than 500 jobs. Audi customers and guests can experience models up close in Neuburg, for example during training sessions on various circuits. A so-called prototype driving license, important for suppliers and developers, is also offered. From the Neuburg site, Audi Sport GmbH also supports the racing activities of its customers worldwide through the Audi Sport customer racing department.

Audi Formula Racing GmbH is developing and manufacturing the drivetrain for the brand’s entry into Formula One in 2026 at the Neuburg site. Thanks to the existing infrastructure, development of the power unit was able to begin directly in 2022, while at the same time a comprehensive modernization and expansion for the F1 project was implemented. A new building with around 3,000 square meters of floor space expands the test area and houses specialized workshops and laboratories. Overall, Audi has 22 state-of-the-art engine and component test benches for Formula One in Neuburg.

Audi’s Technical Development department carries out development tests with prototype cars on the site and tests the latest generation of driver assistance and camera systems, among other things.

Ducati Motor Deutschland GmbH is based at Audi Neuburg and represents the Italian motorcycle manufacturer Ducati Motor Holding spa as its German subsidiary.

Technical Development and Design

Employees in areas ranging from design to engineering shape the entire product creation process—from design, new vehicle concepts, engine and transmission development, powertrain electrification, electrical and electronic development, and car bodies and suspension systems. Interdisciplinary collaboration enables customer-focused solutions for strategic fields of innovation, such as digitalization, sustainable drive types, and premium mobility experiences.

  • Networked development through systems engineering: New forms of collaboration across different company divisions are creating the conditions for mastering highly complex technical systems. The focus is on production requirements and functions.
  • The Design Center is a digital design factory. Audi has developed a new, innovative design process that combines the advantages of cutting-edge 3D visualization with the strengths of traditional handcrafted modeling. The teams work here in an area of approximately 37,180 square meters.
  • The Aggregate Center, a workplace for engineers, houses a variety of test equipment and measuring technology. All the drive types are developed and thoroughly tested here.
  • The “High-voltage battery” project house was opened as a Center of Excellence integrating Technical Development, Production, and partner companies.
  • Powered up at the Electronics Center: This is where all electrical devices, cables, sensors, and control units undergo comprehensive testing at an early stage in order to implement digitalization in the vehicle. In the past, the focus here was on cables, electrics, and control units. It is now the central point of contact for software development in the vehicle. The transformation of cable to software integration is progressing, and the focus is currently on software validation and approvals in the development process.
  • Design check for the virtual Audi “to go”: In the virtual reality (VR) studio, development teams analyze realistic vehicle models that are true to detail before they are made.
  • In UX/UI development, customer-centered concepts are designed holistically and from a single source along the customer journey – from innovation to concept approval.
  • The Lighting Assistance Center is a 120-meter-long light tunnel that cars can drive through. This is where Audi’s pioneering lighting technology is created, with innovations such as Matrix LED headlights and laser light.
  • Wind-resistance at the wind tunnel center with the aeroacoustics, thermal, and climate wind tunnels: Experts work on optimal aerodynamics at speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour.
  • In the newly emerging high-frequency center, Audi will, in future, carry out all relevant tests relating to wireless technology and electromagnetic compatibility at the complete-vehicle level, centrally and at an optimized location. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in October 2024.

Mobility of the future

  • To successfully manage the transformation to electric mobility and digitalization, Audi needs new key skills, which it is promoting in particular among its workforce.
  • A primary focus is promoting the next generation of skilled workers. As a future-oriented company, AUDI AG continuously adapts its vocational training and dual study programs to reflect the transformation and prepare for strategic future jobs. More than 1,260 vocational trainees and over 240 dual students work at Audi in Ingolstadt on the future of mobility. In the fall of 2024, 409 young people began their vocational training, and 115 students started a dual bachelor’s or master’s degree program at the Ingolstadt site. Audi is focusing on targeted qualification and advanced training programs for its employees to promote lifelong learning as part of its training-to-retirement approach to the transformation.
  • Over the past three years, the company has invested around 400 million euros in the training and development of its employees.