BMW i3 is official, and this is what he can
Posted on 29-07-2013 at 15:33 by ricardo – 84 Comments”
A BMW with a maximum top speed of 150 km/h. Welcome to the future, where even the prophets of Freude am Fahren focus on near-silent EV’s.
The 3.999 mm long BMW i3 is the first electric car of the brand from the ground is built up as an electric car. The leaked photos knew you already, as well as the specifications. But BMW has the car just in three spots on the world at the same time revealed and everything about their latest acquisition, announced. Comes:
The BMW i3 has in the floor a lithium-ion-battery 230 kg. This for energy storage gives the i3 a range of 130 to 160 kilometres. That is what mode you play it: in ECO PRO mode, the range with some twenty kilometers and increases in ECO PRO+ with forty kilometres. The BMW i3 can to a normal wall socket to be hung or you can choose for a i wall box using a quick charger in 30 minutes your car for 80 percent recharge.
Driving the i3 is a little getting used to, because as soon as the accelerator pedal, excuse me, the accelerator pedal is released, the display switches to the recovery mode automatically. That means that the car slows down and electricity. They call the one pedal driving, and I’ve already in the Model S from Tesla have experienced it: you quickly get used to, and to be honest, is pretty comfortable. And yes, there is still a brake pedal for the heavier remwerk. On the highway to work this trick, incidentally, not because there is the coasting mode is switched on as soon as you stop accelerating. Hereby the electric motor is disconnected from the driveline so the i3 without resistance can roll.
The electric motor between the rear wheels produces 170 horsepower and 250 Nm of torque. The sprint from 0 to 60 km/h takes 3.7 seconds and from 0 to 100 km/h in 7.2 seconds. The top speed is limited to 150 km/h.
The powertrain (no, rear-wheel drive was not thrown overboard)
1.195 kg is what the i3 weighs. Admittedly, for a four-person EV that seems to fall. The car is also largely of CFRP, the carbon fiber-reinforced plastic, and aluminum built. Inside was still a bit of magnesium on the corner. BMW claims that the material was strong enough to take the car without a B-pillar to build, making the front and rear doors, now in the opposite direction to open. Suicide doors.
What? Is a range of 130 km are not enough? Leave a motorblokje installation. The optional range extender – a 650-cc two-cylinder petrol engine of 34 hp – in addition to the electric motor above the rear axle placed and increase the range to around three hundred kilometres. “The emissions of CO2 is still under 20 g/km,” says BMW.
The delivery of the BMW i3 on the Dutch market start end of this year, for a price of 35.500 euro. With ‘range extender’ is the price 39.990 euro. For more ins and outs about this piece of future-on-wheels BMW, check Groen7.nl.
UPDATE: BMW has a configurator for the i3 online popped. Apparently comes only in fifty shades of grey and orange. See for themselves if it looks better with 19 or 20 inch wheels.
UPDATE 2: A video of the BMW i3 from all angles on elektrojunk.nl.
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Gallery: BMW i3 2013
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