German carmaker BMW managed to increase its reserve of electric i3 by a half times, the rapid progress in this area is not waiting, explains edition of Bloomberg. According to the automaker, the BMW i3 increase the battery capacity in half while maintaining the existing unit mass of traction batteries (230 kg) will need to work hard for seven years. Limited power reserve does not attract buyers to the "pure" electric vehicles, and the current value of the battery does not allow infinitely increase the price of the finished vehicle.
Perhaps for this reason, BMW prefers not to expand the range of machines that exist only in the "electric" version.In the nearest plans of the German company - the release of electric vehicles on the platform and in the Mini body, as well as BMW X3 crossover. These versions appear in 2019. In the next five or six years, CFO BMW does not expect explosive growth in the popularity of electric vehicles. By the way, the German competitors demonstrate serious ambitions in this segment: Daimler intends to release no less than 10 models of cars on electric until 2025, and even registered for this brand the EQ, and Volkswagen to the same time intends to extend the range of electric vehicles to 30 models, bringing their share to 25% of sales volumes of all cars. It is clear that BMW will act more cautiously.
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