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Old 06-17-2015, 09:55 AM   #1 (permalink)
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588 mpg BMW four seater?

BMW is said to develop a 0.4 l/100km (588 mpg) plugin hybrid four seater car, using carbon fiber reinforced plastic like in the i3.
It should have a Cd of 0.18, even lower than the Volkswagen XL1, and much better than the i3.
It should even be lighter than the i3, which is relatively light already at 2800 pounds.

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Old 06-17-2015, 11:38 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Most interesting is the two-cylinder gasoline engine, which is said to run solely as a range-extending generator--just as it does in the BMW i3 REx model.
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You could view the research vehicle, in fact, as a far more aerodynamic take on the i3 REx with an all-carbon structure.
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Producing it would be uneconomical at the moment, they say, so the company is not considering putting it into series production.
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Yup, on second thought it is not that impressive.
I get the feeling they metered out the fuel economy by assuming it takes most of its juice from the net and use the range extender for just a few % of the miles.

In that light, if a smoker buys a Tesla and uses a Zippo to light up, he might smoke for 100.000 miles on a single gallon.

But who cares about the overblown mpgs.
My office is in the same street as a BMW dealership, I see the i3s zip by at high speed. They seem like a lot of fun to drive.
If BMW can make a reasonably priced electric car that not only drives fast, but has the looks too - who knows what can happen.
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And that "blended mode" fuel economy isn't including the electricity used, which is the same problem with the XL1.

Anything saying that the XL1 gets "0.9 l/100 km" is wrong, it gets 0.9 l+7.2 kWh/100 km on the NEDC cycle.
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...sounds exactly like GM's early original "marketing creativity" used for VOLT.

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