Concept Official: BMW i3 and i8 Concepts

[tomazino]

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BMW i8 Concept Car - YouTube
BMW i8 Concept Car and BMW i8 Concept Car - YouTube

 

[Human]

BMW i3 and i8 concepts spied live in Chicago on a photoshoot [videos]

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[Centurion]

Was reading up about both the i3 and i8, great the i3 may be but it is let down badly by the present battery technology, to have a range of only 80miles between charges means it will be of little use to 99% of people though its performance is extraordinary for an electric city type car.

Valid points but for what these cars are they will be too expensive and not viable for 99% of the population. Consider them prototype cars for the future that will be tested by early adopters.

 

[Betty Swollocks]

Like Top Gear said. Electric cars are not the future. I've no idea why car manufacturers are continuing to waste time with them. In ten years people will realise. They are the LaserDisc of the motoring world. Something much better will come along.

 

[SKY]

Like Top Gear said. Electric cars are not the future. I've no idea why car manufacturers are continuing to waste time with them. In ten years people will realise. They are the LaserDisc of the motoring world. Something much better will come along.

It could it be, but what? Hydrogen?.

 

[klier]

All we need is much better batteries. Lighter, smaller and more efficient. That's something thousands of people have been working on for decades already though. I don't see a breakthrough yet. A laptop battery still sucks too.

 

[jack]

All we need is much better batteries. Lighter, smaller and more efficient. That's something thousands of people have been working on for decades already though. I don't see a breakthrough yet. A laptop battery still sucks too.

the technology is there, but its going to take some time until
batteries and charging is no bottle neck
if it be magnesium sulfur batteries (expected mass production in next 7 years)
or lithium air (expected mass production in next 15 years)

 

[Betty Swollocks]

It could it be, but what? Hydrogen?.

So I'm told.

 

[Centurion]

Forget hydrogen. No one is going to set up an infrastructure for hydrogen refuelling. Electric cars are the most immediate and quickest replacement for petrol. Like others have mentioned. Once battery technology has advanced and been tested for another 3-5 years,the electric revolution will dawn on us.

 

[Michael]

Forget hydrogen. No one is going to set up an infrastructure for hydrogen refuelling. Electric cars are the most immediate and quickest replacement for petrol. Like others have mentioned. Once battery technology has advanced and been tested for another 3-5 years,the electric revolution will dawn on us.

Yup. That seems to be the most reasonable, practical, and logistically speaking most efficient route to take. There is electricity all around out. It is easier to implement an electrically infrastructure for cars than it is to implement another source the is not readily and easily accessible.

 

[Betty Swollocks]

And where does electricity come from? It's still mainly fossil fuels or nuclear.

 

[jack]

And where does electricity come from? It's still mainly fossil fuels or nuclear.

but even this can change in the coming years
i am not talking about a radical change
there is a lot of technology out there thats just not put into practice, but after germany and japan losing interest in atomic energy things can get interesting
i mean even these days scientists found a way to get 8times the output of typical solar panels - and people always thought that this kind of technology is already dead

 

[SCOTT27]

BMWi8 undergoing film and photography in Chicago.

 

[klier]

Is that for the Mission Impossible movie? And will that movie feature the i3 too??

 

[SKY]

I have to say that live pics look much much better. As always with the BMWs anyway.

 

[SCOTT27]

Is that for the Mission Impossible movie? And will that movie feature the i3 too??

No the Vision Efficient Dynamics concept car is featured in Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol. i3 and i8 will feature in another production.

 

[bum-man]

So this is what the production i8 will look like? Looks very very.......



Good!

Even better than the concept.

 

[Centurion]

So this is what the production i8 will look like? Looks very very.......



Good!

Even better than the concept.

It's still a concept. Don't count o seeing any car with glass doors or such a fancy bumper or hood. The wedge shape will stay, so will the head lights and some elements of the tail light design but much of the eye candy will be gone. We will unlikely see that rim design.

 

[klier]

Some of the eye candy. Not much. It's going to stay radical.

 

[Beemer B773ER]

IMO that rear-end looks a whole lot better than the original VED Concept. Has a more widened and sporty look!