BMW is preparing a new wave of electric cars, more avant-garde than the current generation. The Munich firm will launch the new zero emissions offensive on the market in 2025, releasing a first model that will surprise in all aspects. It will be the new generation of the BMW i3, of which we present a first preview and its details.
BMW will surprise the world again in 2025 as it did in 2013 when the commercial launch of the BMW i3. A minivan-format utility vehicle that it advanced in the form of a concept car only two years before and that it carried practically intact to production. The same strategy is the one that the Bavarian firm intends to recover for a new generation electric company that will only share a name.
The future BMW i3 will be the electric variant of a new generation 3 Series, being considered the true rival of the Tesla Model 3, a role that for now has been assumed by the new i4. The electric future of the Munich brand is already in the making, as it will be presented an advance in 2024 and will go on sale in 2025. from design to engineering and the technology it will house. It will stand out in all fields, but the first one will undoubtedly attract the most attention, like this first preview of the avant-garde electric future.
The future BMW i3, an electric that will break the schemes
The future BMW i3 will bet on a body most practical and unprecedented in the 3 Series range, a four-door hatchback saloon that will reach 4.70 meters long and that will offer a more familiar side design than coupe. The German firm already considered years ago a concept called “FAST” for the Series 3 that later later discarded. This style is the one that will prevail in the future i3, with great luminosity and interior space, in addition to leading aerodynamics marked by the sloping windshield.
Although the living room prototype will receive changes to start its way to series production, what will not change excessively will be the central area. The famous ovoid grill will no longer be so Well, as in the most sporty models a more vertical shape has been coined, in this new electric it will be made more horizontal and completely closed housing a new front lighting system.
The future i3 will throw the house out of the window when it comes to technology. In addition to being the first to release the new multi-energy platform based on CLAR We Today, it will also be the brand’s first model to debut the sixth generation of the eDrive powertrain. Known as «Gen 6», Among the novelties that it will offer stands out a new lithium-ion battery that will have up to 40% higher energy density, which will reduce its size and weight, in addition to having a load of 800 Volts.