The German folks at BMW decided to reveal an official photo gallery with the new BMW i3. However, there are not too many reasons to cheer up as these photos show a prototype model which is still wearing a thick layer of camouflage. Anyway, this won’t stop us to remind you that the upcoming BMW [...]

Today we get the first informaion on the optional range-extending engine, a feature which should become available in the near future for the BMW i3. This engine is very likely to be a two-cylinder gasoline unit borrowed from BMW Motorrad. Thanks to the additional powertrain, BMW i3′s driving range should be extended from 161 km [...]

The Germans at BMW officially announced that 40 years have passed since the first electric vehicle bearing BMW’s badge left the factory. We talk about the BMW 1602 electric vehicles, two prototypes prepared for the Olympic Games in 1972. This model was equipped with a 32 kW electric motor and a lead-acid battery pack providing [...]

Together with the new BMW i8, the German company also presented the smaller member of the i range, namely the new, fully electric BMW i3. The model still bears the “Concept” badge but we expect to see the series model to get almost all the features of the prototype pictured below. Initially, the BMW i3 [...]

As you probably know, the Bavarians from BMW already revealed the new i3 and i8 models at a press conference held few days ago. For now, they presented just the concept version of the models in question but in fact they are pre-production vehicles which will suffer only minor modifications as mass production models. The [...]

This is the day all of us were waiting for many months, since BMW announced the new i sub-brand to be more precise. If we already knew how the BMW i8 plug-in hybrid will look like mainly as it is based on the Vision EfficientDynamics Concept, the new i3 electric model was somehow shrouded in [...]

The Bavarians from BMW recently announced that the first to models within the new i range will be previewed soon within a press conference scheduled for this Friday, on July 29th, 2011 to be more precise. The Germans considered that this is all we have to know for now about this event, therefore no additional [...]

It seems that the Germans from BMW are planning to reveal the first two models of the new i sub-brand ahead the Frankfurt Auto Show which starts in September this year. First time when we came in contact with the new fully electric BMW i3 happened few months ago when the spy photographers caught the [...]

It seems that new details regarding the BMW i3, more or less official, are emerging as the debut date approaches. The BMW i3 is part of the new i sub-brand, a range of electric models that will bear BMW’s badge, the first models being scheduled to debut starting 2013. More exactly, we talk about the [...]

After last month we had the opportunity to get in touch the first official details on the new BMW i sub-brand, today, we have the first photos of the new BMW i3, the first model bearing the i badge which will enter the market in 2013. Benefiting from the LifeDrive architecture, the new BMW i3 [...]