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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, 2025) 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. In addition, production of the new Audi A2 e-tron will start in 2026. With the mix of fully electric models and combustion models such as the new Audi Q3, which will be manufactured jointly at the Győr and Ingolstadt sites in the course of the year, Audi is ensuring that the Ingolstadt site remains robust and future-proof.

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 Formula Racing GmbH
  • Audi driving experience center
  • Headquarters of Audi Sport GmbH  
  • Technical Development divisions with a focus on driver assistance systems and integrated safety (FAS/IS)
  • 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 and its tradition. 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, a vehicle exhibition with a selection of the latest models, the Audi shop, and the museum store with a range of appealing products.

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 whole-vehicle tests that meet all globally applicable requirements in the various markets. The pioneering facility can 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 soil remediation project is one of the largest in Germany.

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 digitalization projects. For example, Audi is 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.

To ease traffic congestion, the Audi Ingolstadt site is working with the Ingolstadt public transit company (VGI) and Deutsche Bahn, among others. The optimized bus routes and envisaged half-hourly service at the Ingolstadt Audi train station, right on the factory premises, will benefit not only Audi employees but also local residents. At the same time, this strengthening of local public transport is an important contribution to environmental protection and decarbonization. 

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, 2025, Audi is operating more than 3,000 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 2025, more than 12 million automotive parts were manufactured there.

Neuburg

Audi Neuburg is home to Audi Formula Racing GmbH, the Audi Driving Experience and Audi Sport GmbH. The Technical Development division also tests driver assistance and safety systems at the site, and Ducati Motor Deutschland GmbH has its headquarters 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 supports the racing activities of its customers worldwide through the Audi Sport performance division as well as the Audi Sport racing legends project. 

Audi Formula Racing GmbH is developing and manufacturing the power unit for the Audi Revolut F1 Team 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 of specialized workshops and laboratories for the F1 project was implemented. A new building with around 3,000 square meters of floor space expands the test area. 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.