BMW i3 electric car

Now a day’s where world facing energy crises weather it is in fossil reserves or in ordinary energy reserves. So automobile engineer’s decide to upgrade the technology and make environmental friendly electric cars. Electric cars are outrageously expensive BMW wants the premium segment therefore wind up with a competitive price of $ 46,650 dollars with the electricity costs BMW i3 just as much as a well equipped BMW 3 Series. But it’s still cheaper. The car maker BMW increases with a competitive price in the market for electric cars and plans to offer its first series produced electricity BMW i3 significantly lower than expected. So far, the price had been estimated at around 50,000 dollars in the industry is the lower entry, although more unfordable for many drivers, regarded as predatory pricing to grab market share. For comparison, Opel electrically powered plug-in hybrid Ampera will cost $ 54,000 in the cheapest version.

Features of BMW i3 electric car

See here some exciting and new features of BMW i3 electric car as well as you can view a picture review of BMW i3.

Body

The biggest difference you can not see from the outside in BMW i3. The passenger compartment of the small electric car is made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). The carbon fibers that can perform different functions according to the high and low strength steels in conventional cars are manufactured in the USA, the components built at the BMW plant in Leipzig, here is the finished carbon bodywork is also bonded.

Up to 300 kg weight saving BMW i3 according to own data as compared to a vehicle with a normal body. This is necessary because the heavy batteries (they weigh 230 kg in i3) is the weight of an electric car drive up. By comparison, the i3 weighs about 1.2 tons, a conventional VW Polo is the same length around 100 pounds lighter, but the electric car Renault Zoe is just a few inches longer, but weighs 1.5 tons.

BMW 13 inner door body lining

A difference that can be seen immediately, the door panels. At first glance, they seem less noble, unusual in a BMW i3. An engineer enlightens. “This is visible technology“. Because instead of injection molding are the door panels among other plant fibers, a renewable raw material, which makes the component also lighter by about 10 percent. The fiber structure is visible in the panel yet and just deliberately quasi opposite false chrome plastic or imitation leather.

Motor power

Those looking for the electric motor of the small electric car as is usually the front under the hood, will not find it. The 50 pound unit sits close to the driven rear axle. As a result, the BMW i3 is forward very clearly, with a turning circle of 10 meters clear. Like other electric cars, the BMW i3 dashes from the state really going ragged, the 125 kW/170 hp electric motor loses in the direction of 100 km/h is not the force in 7.2 seconds from zero to 100 km/h that creates a Mini Cooper S 0.2 seconds faster.

Breaks

If you take your foot off the gas follows the surprise. The BMW i3 begins immediately to brake by itself, the display flashes on the display when selecting “Load“. While usually not noted in other cars with brake energy recovery from regenerative braking, you can control the speed of the BMW i3 with foresighted driving it. “One pedal feeling” is called that, in city traffic, so you should really need to slow down only in 25 percent of cases.

Engine

An internal combustion engine, the battery charge while on the go and so increase the range the so called range extender but must be ordered separately and is not present in the base price. Unlike most other manufacturer puts BMW on a totally new concept vehicle.

The E-Up will also roll this year at the dealership. In the smallest version, the car costs 36,000 dollars. For comparison, the base model of the small car costs 13,000 dollars but with much less equipment than that of the electric brother.

BMW i3 price

“The BMW i3 announces a new era for individual mobility in the BMW Group,” sales chiefIan Robertson said. Later to follow the sports car i8.

Production of the BMW i3 at the Leipzig plant has already begun. In the body, BMW is complete on lightweight materials like carbon fiber and aluminum, so as to compensate the weight of the batteries. Compared to a normal car, the BMW i3 will be 250 to 350 kilograms lighter through lightweight construction. Critics see that as a shortcoming reach. After 130 to 160 kilometers, the car needs to be charged. It takes eight hours from a standard outlet, but can be shortened significantly at a special quick charger.