BMW i Vision Dynamics as a model for the i4 (Image: BMW)
Since the launch of the i3 in 2013 has BMW no purely electrically powered vehicles presented more. Now comes the second wave of electromobility from Bavaria, as company boss Harald Krüger has announced.
BMW will introduce several new electric cars. This announced company boss Harald Krüger on the Annual Press Conference 2018 “In the course of the year, we present fully electric concept vehicles, all of which go into production.”
These include the iX3, the iNext and the BMW i Vision Dynamics, which was announced as BMW i4 at the Geneva Motor Show. Both the iNext and the i4 are supposed to in Germany to be produced.
The electric version of the SUV X3 should iX3 hot and come along with the BMW iNext, which was set against the Tesla Model 3, this year on the market.
Krüger added that the iNext together with the i4 will contain the fifth generation of BMW’s eDrive powertrain, which will have a wider range. “With the fifth generation of eDrive, our vehicles can power 550 to 700 km depending on the model.” According to which measuring method BMW determined these values, Krüger did not say.
The next e-vehicle from BMW will be the fully electric mini be from 2019 in Oxford and Mexico is to be built. Krüger reiterated that “our future is clearly electric”, but also referred Plug-in hybrids in this statement.