Mainly trying to reduce the production costs or for any other reason, the Germans from BMW will create a new hybrid powertrain that will be shared with the British sub-brand Mini. According to the first details, the new hybrid powertrain will use of course the electric engine and the 1.6-liter petrol unit able to develop [...]

Here we got some awesome official news and I tried not to tell you this through the title of this article so that I will tell you in the content of this post. Yes, as you can see in the title, BMW has some plans in the U.S. market with the BMW ActiveE. The first [...]

We presented you here the official images and details provided by BMW for the ActiveHybrid based on 5-Series, known as ActiveHybrid 5. Now we will see the ActiveHybrid 5 in some presentation videos. BMW has developed a number of strategies to control the hybrid system of the new model based 5-Series and one of them [...]

BMW presented the first pictures and informations of the ActiveHybrid 5 Concept, the model that will debut at the Geneva Motor Show. BMW presented the first official images of its ActiveHybrid 5 Concept version. The model is the hybrid version of the 5-Series F10 and is expected to go into production somewhere in 2011. The [...]

Yes, we have confirmed that the BMW 5 Series is going to come with the hybrid version of it at the Geneva Auto Show. What we need are not pictures because I guess it will look just like the normal BMW 5 Series but we need to know many details. Now I would usually tell [...]

A sketch of the latest patent registered by BMW, reveals the German’s intentions to revolutionize hybrid’s segment with a new chassis that uses the energy of two conventional engines, not one. After the design of the future Mini Countryman was betrayed by the drawings submitted for patent’s validation, another manufacturer made public sees its future [...]

I consider this news very bad and awful and not because I would like to buy a BMW ActiveHybrid 7 but for those people who intend to buy a BMW ActiveHybrid 7. Why? Because I like to consider that we are all equals and with the news that first will be available only for VIPs, [...]

BMW plans to reveal the ActiveHybrid version of the new BMW 5-Series at Geneva Motor Show in 2010. At the auto show, BMW seems that want to provide other vehicles also, but the manufacturer has chosen to keep silent about this fact for now, more details about this we may find during the following days. [...]

Autoweek announced the new target of BMW: to sell 1000 hybrid BMW cars represented by BMW ActiveHybrid X6 and BMW ActiveHybrid 7. Both of previous mentioned hybrid models were unveiled last month. These 2 models are about to be presented at the Frankfurt Autoshow. I also found a very cool video that presents you the [...]

BMW presented the Hybrid version of X5 SUV at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show. It’s about a turbodiesel with the latest technologies whose 204 horse power and 400 Nm are supplemented by those 20 horse power and 210 Nm of a generator discharging 172g of CO2/km. Before BMW X5 Hybrid will be released, other models [...]