New BMW we sub-brand
Revealing the brand new ecological sub-brand – BMW we – a German company has additionally strictly announced that a first vehicles to be produced underneath this new tag will be a i3 and i8. The former will be what has already been well known as the BMW Megacity all-electric citycar, as well as a latter will be a manufacture version of the initial BMW Vision EfficientDynamics notion. It initial appeared in 2009 as well as should be in production by 2013 as the plug-in hybrid representation.
The brand new we sub-brand will residence a array of BMW’s initial forays into hybrid, range-extender as well as plug-in hybrid models. They will all be built upon a brand new height called LifeDrive that is being designed to change a weight of the batteries while still trying to stay true to BMW’s dynamic driving convention.
The BMW we height is made up of an aluminium chassis and a carbonfibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP) passenger cell. The BMW i3 will be an all-electric car which will borrow elements from a 1 Series ActiveE representation, whilst a BMW i8 will be a hybrid representation which could use a 1.5-litre, three-cylinder motor fuel engine as well as an electric motor, possibly the same as which of a i3. Pressure will be upon for it to be a high performance coupé ready to excite people into a brand new BMW i pinnedtoken.
BMW’s Leipzig plant will ready itself for manufacture of the dual vehicles with about 400 million euros in investment. The models should additionally prove to be uninformed belligerent for BMW’s experimentation in on-board entertainment though nonetheless we’ll see a ConnectedDrive concept at a 2011 Geneva Motor Show, there’s no news yet as to whether we’ll see updated prototypes of the i3 as well as i8 at a uncover. See the video above for a declaration on a new sub-brand.
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