BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Plug-in Hybrid Sports Car Gets Go-Ahead
BMW Vision EfficientDynamics is a 4-door plug-in hybrid sports car, shown above in camo-mode. On Friday, the automaker said the car was heading into serial production.
One of the more radical sports car concepts from the 2009 Frankfurt motor show has been given the green light.
BMW announced on Friday that it would put the Vision EfficientDynamics concept into production. Amid reports that the car would be ready by 2013, Frank Strebe, a BMW spokesman, clarified in an e-mail, “We will bring the car into market in about three-four years, so 2014 is more realistic.”
The Vision EfficientDynamics, in concept form, is a 2+2 sports car. The hybrid system, which uses a 3-liter turbo diesel engine with electric motors on the front and rear axles, makes an equivalent of 328 horsepower. The system is powered by a lithium-polymer battery that BMW says can be fully charged with a conventional (European) power socket in two and half hours.
Pure electric range is around 31 miles, says BMW. The concept has a 6.3-gallon fuel tank, and in hybrid mode,the car can travel up to 434 miles.
In May, Mr. Norbert Reithofer told shareholders in Munich that the Vision EfficientDynamics would take a lead in marketing the company’s environmental efforts.
“The design works to enhance the technology’s appeal,” he said. “If you ask me, it has worked very well.”
He explained, “We have given Efficient Dynamics a face. The message is: Sustainable mobility can be at least as exciting as conventional mobility – if you get the best engineers and the best designers together to develop the best result.”
Credit: The New York Times
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