BMW Commercial - The Future is Electric

[Klaus]

Just saw this on Facebook, posted today. Looks genuine to me on quick inspection ... Better late than never, but Tesla made them do it ;-)

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[Lhshockey24]

I came on here to post this. I wanted to comment *correction - 100,000 “electrified” vehicles in quotes since that probably means their plug-in varieties that claim 15 miles of electric range but get more like 7. My wife and I test drove an X5 plug-in and as a hybrid it maybe got 22mpg vs 18mpg for the non plug-in.

I leased an i3 for about 6 months back in 2014. It was a neat car, but so impractical if you are planning on driving anyone else besides yourself and a passenger. We tried a car seat in the back and it was laughable. I swear I still have elbow tendinitis from trying to pry my poor daughter out of her seat back there.

However, I’m excited to see what they can do with a fully electric 5-series or 3-series. Those cars used to be really fun to drive. If they can combine those old driving dynamics in a pure-EV that could be something. We’re no more than a couple years out from that.

 

[Phrixotrichus]

I seriously start to hate the word "electrified" as it is used by the traditional carmakers, it`s just a bad joke.