Two-Wheel Touring: The Clean Way Up
A new installment of a “Long Way Round” broadcast franchise appears to be on the horizon, featuring Harley’s new electric bikes.
A new installment of a “Long Way Round” broadcast franchise appears to be on the horizon, featuring Harley’s new electric bikes.
The 2019 BMW 745e combines the inline, 280-horsepower, 3.0-liter six-cylinder with an 111-horsepower eDrive electric motor and a 10.3 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack to deliver a potent 389 total horsepower. That’s good for a 4.9-second zero-to-60 sprint.
With eye-popping style, sprightly performance, and exclusivity, the BMW i8 Roadster is highly prized, but it’s also highly priced.
BMW has to take some of the credit/blame since it went way beyond introducing an electric vehicle; the Munich-based automaker introduced new electrified models, updates on current ones and essentially illustrated that its commitment to electrify its lineup was happening right now.
But 2018 did bring some good news in the form of the new 2018 BMW i3S Sport model. The most important performance feature of this new variant is a boost to 184 horsepower from 170, and a jump to 199 pounds-feet of torque, dropping the 0-60 time from 7.2 to 6.8 seconds.
BMW continues its move forward to electrify its line-up with the official launch of the 2020 7-Series premium sedan that includes an all-new plug-in hybrid (PHEV) drivetrain.
After a chaotic day caused by heavy rain on Saturday morning, BMW i Andretti Motorsport’s Antonio Felix da Costa won the very first race of a brand-new season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship in Saudi Arabia by fending off Formula E’s world champion Jean-Eric Vergne.
Recent spy shots of the apparently near-production BMW iX3 show camouflaged bumpers and front end, but it looks familiar—and less dramatic than the concept.
This week (embargoed to tonight) BMW flew around the world to give a peek at its plans for electrified vehicles beginning next year and revealed a concept vehicle, the BMW Vision iNext.
During the recent quarterly earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned the top five trade-in cars that are being traded in by buyers of the new Model 3.