2011 BMW i8 Concept Review

2011 BMW i8

2011 BMW i8

2011 BMW i8

2011 BMW i8 Concept come with the emotional design to ensures its qualities are clear for all to see. Its dynamic proportions give the BMW i8 Concept the appearance of surging forward before it even turns a wheel and lend visual form to its extraordinary performance. A series of air inlets allow the air to flow through and around the BMW i8 Concept to optimum effect, ensuring extremely low drag. They also add visual emphasis to these advanced aerodynamics.

2011 BMW i8

2011 BMW i8

The LifeDrive architecture of the BMW i8 Concept has been carefully adapted to enhance the vehicle sports car character, and therefore to deliver unbeatable performance and excellent driving dynamics. The weight of every component inside the BMW i8 Concept has been minimised down to the very last detail, allowing the extra weight of the electric drive system and battery to be cancelled out. The passengers BMW i8 Concept sit – in typical sports car style – in an extremely low and enclosed position inside the CFRP-constructed Life module (mounted above the Drive module).

Performance the BMW i3 Concept equipped with the plug-in hybrid concept combines the modified electric drive system from the BMW i3 Concept – fitted over its front axle – with a high-performance three-cylinder combustion engine producing 164 kW (220 hp)/300 Nm (221 lb-ft) at the rear. The electric motor in the BMW i8 Concept is a full-capability unit which can also power the car on its own. Acceleration of 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in under five seconds combined with fuel consumption in the European cycle of under three litres per 100 kilometres (approx. 94 mpg imp) and average customer fuel consumption of between five and seven litres per 100 kilometres (40.4 – 56.5 mpg imp). the BMW i8 Concept can travel up to 35 kilometres (approx. 20 miles) on electric power alone.