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1st Gear: BMW Has A Flurry Of Announcements This Morning
Which we will have more about in a bit but for now I will cover the topline one, which is that BMW says that it expects that half of its new car sales will be fully electric by 2030. The company has been getting serious about electric for a bit now. Also, say goodbye to internal combustion engine Minis.
The automaker plans for about half of total sales to be fully electric by the end of the decade, it said on Wednesday. The company also confirmed that its Mini brand will only sell battery-powered cars by the early 2030s.
2022 BMW i4 Officially Previewed With 523 HP Electric Motor, 0-60 in 4 Seconds 17 Mar 2021, 11:21 UTC ·
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Approximately one year after the BMW Concept i4 was supposed to take center stage at the canceled Geneva Motor Show (it had an online reveal instead), Munich has finally decided to unveil the production version of its first-ever electric sedan at BMW Group’s Annual Conference. 10 photos
Like with the concept car, BMW didn t go out of its way to offer each and every technical detail about the model, with just the important bits being mentioned ahead of a more exhaustive reveal in the following weeks.
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The i4 can develop up to 530PS, figures close to those of a V8 petrol engine!
The wraps are off the all-new i4, BMW’s first all-electric four-door coupe. Based on the 4 Series’s platform, the i4 will take on the likes of Tesla’s Model 3. Sure, petrol heads might miss out on the rumble of a V8, but the i4 was earlier teased with a lively rear-end to prove that it still has that BMW magic.
The i4 will be offered in multiple variants with different powertrain configurations. While BMW is yet to reveal the variant-wise data, we know that it has the chops to develop up to 530PS. These figures put it in the same league as that of BMW’s 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8! The i4 can also go from nought to 100kmph in 4 seconds.
By Nick Carey and Riham Alkousaa (Reuters) - BMW expects at least half of its sales to be zero emission vehicles by 2030, setting a more conservative target than some rivals in the race to embrace cleaner driving. In the short term, the German carmaker forecast on Wednesday a big year-on-year rise in pretax profit for this year, with a strong performance in all areas - from MINIS through its upmarket BMW brand to top-of-the-range Rolls-Royces. Its shares were up around 3.8% in morning trading. Bernstein analyst Arndt Ellinghorst said BMW had entered 2021 very confidently. In terms of electromobility, BMW is making good progress and is taking significantly fewer risks than VW, he said.
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BMW Announces iDrive 8 With Curved Displays, Upgraded Assistant, Modern UI 15 Mar 2021, 15:30 UTC ·
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First and foremost, the new system s core is the BMW Curved Display, which brings together the information and the control displays for one super-large screen that’ll blow your mind. The mix allows for a massive screen estate upgrade, as it merges the 12.3-inch and the 14.9-inch panels into a single unit with a 200 ppi pixel density.
The large screen covers both the instrument panel and the cockpit area, and thanks to the new iDrive 8, it can display information in a straightforward manner that makes it easier to read at a glance. Of course, the screen is angled towards the driver, coming with touch support for convenient input.