Since BMW’s i division launched in 2011, it has only offered two models to consumers, the i3 hatchback and the i8 supercar. So you’d think the next plug-in hybrid, the much-rumored i5, would be right on the horizon. Apparently not, because years after rumors of that car surfaced, BMW Blog says the i5 has now been…
The 2017 BMW i3 will be available with a new 33 kWh battery, increasing the car’s max pure-electric range to 114 miles. That’s a 50 percent battery bump translating to an extra 33 miles of drivable distance.
I returned this morning from a week-long work trip to New York to find myself in possession of a very unusual vehicle. This is a BMW i3 with a range extender and I’m testing it through next week. It should be a very interesting week.
I wanted to chat about the future of electric mobility with the man who knows about it all: Henrik Wenders, Head of BMW’s i division. He turned out to be a down to earth guy who believes cities without noise and air pollution is a vision worth working for. Talk about being at the right place!
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, it made sense to use an experimental BMW as an escort vehicle for long distance runners. Everybody got to breathe fresh air and BMW got some nice PR. Four decades later the i3 arrived, but this was the original electric BMW.
The expansion of BMW's i sub-brand is inevitable, and the next obvious model in the pipeline is a sedan, likely wearing an i5 or i7 badge. But despite calling BMW's new electrically motivated sedan a "Tesla fighter", Car reports that it's going to use an internal combustion engine to extend range.
In a world-first, BMW is employing artificial intelligence to promote its ground-breaking new electric cars through an automated information service for UK customers.
Is BMW going to drop the Hofmeister Kink? Here's hoping that's just for FWD cars.
BMW partnered with designers Bouroullec to build an art installation for the Salone del Mobile in Milan. The "big kids" ride involves paint and parts from the BMW i vehicles.
Of all of BMW's recent concepts, none are as daring as their pair of low emission "i" vehicles, the i8 and i3. Both those cars remain in the prototype stages, but Britain's Evo Magazine recently got to take a trip in the i8 on frozen lake in Sweden.
BMW's new sustainable sub-brand will be called "BMW i" and launch with the BMW i8/Vision EfficientDynamics, the smaller Megacity-based i3, and $100 million in venture capital for sustainable mobility projects. What, no iSetta?
BMW will announce the official new sub-brand name on Monday. The project, dubbed "i" since its inception, will focus on electric and small vehicles. The first car will be the Mega City Vehicle, going on sale in 2013.
