BMW i100 Coupe ActiveHybrid

BMW i100 Coupe ActiveHybrid: this could be the name chosen for the hybrid sport that BMW will present in 2014. Together with the small Megacity, it will debut a new Audi sports set against E-Tron and conceptually derived from the prototype Vision EfficientDynamics. The advances are many, as well as the assumptions on the solutions chosen for the mechanics: some will be just the solution of the proposed concept, equipped with two electric motors and a diesel tricilindrico, for a total of about 285 hp, while others will recent 3-liter 6-cylinder turbo N55 to be combined with electric thrusters.

In any case, the range with only the batteries will be between 15 and 50 km, good for traveling public, while the combined use of the engines will rank with performance sports consumption and emissions much lower than in the past. The i100 should still positioned in a niche of luxury, with a money order of 100,000, but according to informed sources BMW would provide 35,000 units per year thanks to the availability in Europe and the United States, with the possibility to use different engines according to individual markets without changing chassis and design concept. The i100 in the past has often been mentioned as the heir to label the M1.