We take one last look at pioneering city car which forged the i-brand template a decade ago The year is 2013 and the BMW i3 has just been launched. Cast your mind back: the world was mercifully free of Covid, we were still three years away from teenagers TikToking, Prince Harry was mates with his brother and
After nine years on the market and more than 200,000 vehicles produced, the BMW i3 heading towards a well-deserved retirement. The announcement didn’t come as a shock, but it’s still sad to hear the quirky EV will be no more from July. The pint-sized hatch arrived before the electric boom, which is why it suffered from
Part carbon, 2.5 tonnes and that grille – welcome to BMW’s immediate future The new i4 M50 that got its moment in the wintry sun last week represented the sensible, buttoned-down side of BMW’s electrification strategy, being an EV version of the 4 Series Gran Coupe. It’s the sort of car that offers an easy –
Electric BMW will rival the Tesla Model 3 i4 will cover up to 370 miles on a single charge Prices start at £52,000 The BMW i4 is available to order with a starting price of £52,000. The i4 will most likely reach showrooms in 2022 and be a rival for the Tesla Model 3, which
Final i4 shown at Goodwood ahead of a market launch three months early, in line with BMW’s accelerated EV plans BMW has revealed the final, production-spec version of its new i4 saloon to the UK public for the first time at this year’s Goodwood festival of speed, as it gears up to launch the Tesla
Several automobile manufacturers have made pledges in recent months to halt or drastically reduce producing cars with internal combustion engines between 2030 and 2035. The latest was Audi, a subsidiary of Germany’s Volkswagen, which pledged Tuesday to launch only fully electric vehicles from 2026 and halt manufacturing cars with internal combustion engines by 2033. Here’s
This is BMW’s first electric car since the i3 and uses a completely different recipe. The world is changing at a faster pace than ever. Most of the credit goes to the rapid tech advancements in all fields. At the same time, this change doesn’t seem to happen fast enough in some industries. The automotive
Though it’s electric, the BMW iX3 feels very familiar. It had to be an SUV, everything these days is an SUV. But if you’re a brand launching its first “mass-produced” electric car, why wouldn’t you position it in the lowest-risk segment? The 2021 BMW iX3 may not be a completely new model (like, say, the
WHICH ELECTRIC cars can be driven 300 miles or more between charges? When buying a new battery-electric vehicle, a long range is one of the first things a customer will look for. At the time of the original Nissan Leaf’s launch 10 years ago, the car makers dabbling with pure-electric models were trying to convince
BMW abandons the i3, the car that could have birthed a bright electric future
BMW’s forsaken i3 was exceptional, underwhelming, and far too ahead of its time. The BMW i3 has reached the end of the line. Two weeks ago, BMW confirmed that this is the last month the company will be making its quirky and often misunderstood electric vehicle for US customers. In doing so, the automaker acknowledged
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