The BMW i3 is no longer the hatchback cuteness it used to be.
The domestic BMW Brilliance i3 will be officially pre-sold at the end of this month, and is a pure electric model based on the mid-term redesign of the BMW 3 Series. Through the previous declaration chart, we have been able to clearly understand the appearance of the new car, which is not much different from the fuel version of the 3 series of the mid-term redesign, mainly because of the replacement of the closed grille, and the addition of some blue trim strips to the body and cockpit to highlight the pure electric identity. At the same time, the central control area adopts a hyperboloid joint screen design, which is the biggest difference from the current 3 series.
In addition, although the new car has not yet been officially released, from BMW's previous electrification deployment and the i4 platform, we can basically guess the approximate product performance of the i3.
For example, like the i4, it will be equipped with BMW's fifth-generation electric drive, which has a power efficiency of up to 93%, referring to the horsepower data of about 340 horses of the i4 edrive 40, it can almost achieve the parameters of BMW 3.0T, and the top model of the i3 may also use the same power. In addition, BMW's advertised rare earth-free synchronous magneto, coupled with the industry's leading tuning skills, refers to the i4 of the same platform, the driving experience is almost no different from the oil car, and it is still the benchmark of the same level of control. In addition, the I3 Ministry of Industry and Information Technology declared that the NEDC has a range of 526 kilometers, which is not the level of the first echelon of the current market, but it is not excluded that a long-lasting version will be launched in the future.
In addition, the intelligent technology that electric vehicles cannot ignore, we have seen the combination of ultrasonic radar + millimeter wave radar + camera on BMW pure electric models such as i4 and ix3, which can achieve L2 level driving assistance functions, and such a configuration will probably be extended to i3.
The characteristic is that it can achieve automatic follow-up in road conditions with a speed of less than 60 per hour, and in addition, it can achieve the tracing and reversing function of 50 meters trajectory, which is very useful for dead end roads, but at present, many self-owned brand models of more than 100,000 levels are also equipped. In addition, although it is unlikely that it will not be equipped with lidar, it can still achieve automatic lane change function, which is a capability that most L2-level driving assistance does not have, and it is also a major feature of BMW's driving assistance function.
Finally, it is expected that the bmw i3 pre-sale price is about 350,000, and the fuel version of the 3 series does not open the gap, compared to the price difference between this Ix3 and X3, it is still very sincere.