Under the trend of most car companies in the world to electrification, many car brands have announced that they will stop developing internal combustion engines, such as Audi, Volvo and Hyundai, which makes many car owners who like traditional fuel power feel a little lost. However, BMW has made it clear a few days ago that it will continue to develop internal combustion engines, which seems to be contrary to the mainstream, but it may be "good news" for users who like traditional cars.
BMW's development director Frank Weber publicly confirmed this in an interview with foreign media, saying that BMW is developing a new generation of gasoline and diesel six-cylinder eight-cylinder engines. To reduce CO2 emissions, BMW needs to extend its "state-of-the-art internal combustion engine" for a few more years, "with a six-cylinder engine alone, we can reduce CO2 emissions more than ever before."
For this purpose, BMW's new engine plants are coming, and it is reported that these engine plants will be technically prepared for future emission standards.
From the statement of the development director, it is not difficult to see that BMW still has a special love for its own fuel engine, and BMW currently has technology and has the ability to further develop new engines, in order to improve engine efficiency, BMW has improved the new engine that is "completely different from the past", adding new technology to the cylinder head.
BBA three, at present only BMW did not clearly propose the time to stop selling fuel vehicles, the other two not only clarified the time of suspension, but also proposed not to develop new fuel engines, before the traditional car companies have been complained about the slow speed of transformation, but really turned up, they are so radical.
In contrast, BMW is relatively conservative and is not in a hurry to expand rapidly in the field of electrification. Although there are also grand new energy plans, they have not set up these clear time nodes for the sale of fuel vehicles, and they have been steady and steady.
BMW's attitude towards new energy models has always been somewhat subtle:
On the one hand, BMW continues to propose to vigorously develop new energy models, but the models launched are basically oil to electricity products, whether it is the iX3 sold at 20% off today or the BMW Brilliance i3 that has just come out of the declaration chart, or even the iX1 and i7 that are frequently spyed, these products also maintain the appearance of the fuel version of the model, and even the shell is not redesigned, Mercedes-Benz's EQA, B, C at least and the appearance of the fuel version of the model are different, and BMW even saves this step.
On the other hand, BMW CEO recently said that the current supply of BMW pure electric vehicle models is in short supply, but will not expand battery production, but slowly find partners. All this shows that BMW is not in a hurry to carry out rapid expansion in pure electric vehicles.
There is also a very important point, the current BMW fuel model this big cake is too profitable, BMW's announcement of 2021 domestic deliveries, a total of 846237 BMW and MINI cars delivered, an increase of 8.9% year-on-year, iX3 delivery of more than 21,000 vehicles. In other words, more than 820,000 fuel models were delivered. The BMW Group once again hit a record high in 2021, and also surpassed Mercedes-Benz and Audi in one fell swoop, winning the top spot in the domestic luxury car market.
Sold 840,000 cars, of which 820,000 are fuel vehicles, you let it stop selling fuel vehicles, will it do?
Just like Nokia, insisting on using the Symbian system, the system as the world's absolute largest mobile phone operating system, it occupies very little system resources, does not eat memory, its peak Apple's iOS and Android are just coming out, and are very simple.
And when the opponents are developed, gradually strong, but Nokia is still obsessed with the Symbian system, its problems began to appear, the system itself is too bloated, very unfriendly to developers, the time and cumbersomeness required to develop third-party software is too high, and it is not suitable for the next mobile smartphone.
Nokia could only bear to abandon it, and after abandoning the Symbian system, it did not expect to be cold faster. The same story has been played out in companies such as Kodak.
I don't want this to happen to BMW, the fuel engine is very good, but when abandoned by the times, you don't even have the opportunity to struggle.