BMW has continued its “semi-leadership” in electric vehicles this week. Despite a recent announcement that the company is shifting the BMW i program’s focus away from electric cars and into autonomous driving, it seems that it is holding up on its The all new G20 BMW 3 Series is bound to be released late next year and we’re apparently on track to a heavily upgraded model. … The all new G20 BMW 3 Series is bound to be released late next year and we’re apparently on track to a heavily upgraded The new BMW 3 Series chassis with CLAR technology has been designed with the intention of allowing for the easy inclusion of an electric drivetrain, according to recent reports. In addition, reports published in Auto Express seem to suggest that the Tesla rocked the German luxury makers a couple of years ago when it became clear that its all-electric Model S sedan was truly appealing to a wide swath of enthusiastic luxury-car buyers. With more than 125,000 sold since mid-2012, Tesla Motors has since And BMW has just released the first specs on its newest addition to the flagship range, one of which will battle the S-Class Plug-in Hybrid. The 740e and 740Le will be powered by a 2.0-liter four coupled with an electric motor, with the two churning out a So it’s no shock, really, that BMW is looking to use hybrid or electric power for its new vehicles because those are the current technological trends. But BMW has actually been working on electric vehicles for some time now, with BMW EVs dating back to .
German carmaker BMW Group is considering building a new plug-in hybrid vehicle battery factory in Thailand, the country's industry minister said on Friday. Construction was likely to start in the middle of next year with an investment of 2 billion baht Sitting underneath the breath-taking flagship i8 in BMW's spin-off i range of electric and hybrid vehicles, the i3 is a small, funky, premium electric car with a striking design and a light carbon fibre and aluminium construction. It was launched in 2013 sit within the BMW iPerformance range and benefit from BMW eDrive and the Carbon Core body structure. The intelligently controlled interaction between the combustion engine and the electric drive together generate a total system output of 326hp. BMW is reportedly readying a pure electric version of its all-new 2018 BMW 3 Series. The new 3 Series will arrive in gas and diesel form within 18 months, but beyond that there’s lot of speculation that a pure electric 3 Series, called the eDrive Sport .