BMW is recalling about 1.6 million diesel cars to fix a potential fire hazard in their engines, expanding repairs from just under half a million vehicles in Europe and Asia.

The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into whether German automakers BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen Group colluded to avoid competition in developing clean emissions technology.

South Korea’s transport ministry said on Tuesday it would ban about 20,000 BMW vehicles from the streets amid mounting public fears about engine fires.

BMW’s South Korean unit apologized over 27 engine fires between January and July that have prompted a government probe and a major backlash from consumers.

BMW is investing 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) in a new assembly plant in Hungary, its first factory in Europe in nearly two decades as the automaker strengthens its European footprint amid growing protectionism.

BMW AG will appint Neil Fiorentinos as the new CEO of BMW Group Region Central & Southeastern Europe on September 1, 2018. Fiorentinos replaces Christoph v. Tschirschnitz, who has decided to accept new management challenges outside the BMW Group.

BMW Czech Republic was, as in the past year, a partner of the Carlsbad Classic race car. The sixth year of this “rally” started in Karlovy Vary from Thermal Hotel on Friday afternoon (July 13, 2018).

Czech government of Andrej Babiš agreed to sign a declaration on strategic cooperation between the Government of the Czech Republic and BMW AG to support the planned construction of a test center in the Sokolov region.

German state prosecutors said they searched BMW premises in Germany and Austria, investigating suspected defeat devices capable of manipulating exhaust emissions.

BMW Group together with representatives of the Government of the Czech Republic and the Karlovy Vary Region, announced the intention to build a new testing center of the BMW Group in the Great Podkrušnohorská dump, north of the city of Sokolov.

Managers of the BMW Group, the Czech government and representatives of the Karlovy Vary Region announced the launch of a new test center for autonomous mobility testing.

BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen and Ford are among a group of automakers who have formed a joint venture to create out a pan-European network of 400 fast charging stations for electric vehicles by the year 2020.

BMW passed six i3 models to state and private rescue and healthcare services throughout the territory of the Czech Republic. In addition to two cars for the Capital City of Prague, the members of the rescue and health services of Brno, Hradec Králové, Ostrava and Zlín are the new users of the BMW i3.