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Rumor: BMW planning to attack electric family sedan market with the BMW i5

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Rumor: BMW planning to attack electric family sedan market with the BMW i5
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What we know about BMW's aggressive push into the electric car market (via their dedicated BMW i brand) is that it is essentially a two pronged approach. Cover the exotic sports car market with the BMW i8, to effectively show that an electric car can be a desirable super-car and at the same time produce a compact and efficient city car with the BMW i3.

While both of these cars will do alot to put electric cars into the mindset of car buyers and enthusiasts, the real car market is the mainstream people mover: the family sedan. Autobild.de is reporting that somewhere around year 2015, BMW plans to introduce the BMW i5, a fully electric mid-size people mover that will take a more cross-over shape of the Prius, to create a product that is part sedan, part van and part SUV.

The BMW i5 would be likely to be motivated by a rear-wheel-drive platform utilizing a 170HP electric motor mated to the range extending gas motor producing an additional 90HP.

This is still a rumor at this point, but it makes perfect sense to make a mid-sized car, but it seems the actual shape and configuration are still firmly in the rumor category. What is somewhat scary is Autobild's projected price of "not less than 50,000 €. Thats $66,000 USD to you and me.


[Source: Autobild.de]




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