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09-16-2021, 02:06 PM
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#73
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Drives: Tesla MYRWD
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: UK
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why does I4 weight so much?
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Originally Posted by fsfikke
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Originally Posted by ZCD1
It's actually pretty simple: the I4's weight is a result of its designers' and manufacturer's inexperience with EV platforms.
The good (?) thing is that BMW isn't alone in this - all of the legacy manufacturers' current EV offerings are overweight compared to the state-of-the-art EV chassis on the market, and this has nothing to do with crashworthiness or luxury trappings.
They'll figure it out, eventually.
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Inexperience? You know they've been making EV's since 2009? It's a design choice to create models that customers can purchase with whatever drivetrain they'd like, petrol/diesel/PHEV or BEV. Which I think is a better strategy than creating futuristic BEV-only models. It does take a hit on weight, but opens up a much bigger market for a model than for instance a Tesla model 3. |
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