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As efficiency becomes more important in cars and more cars turn to batteries to store their power, it becomes ever more important to optimize all of a car's systems to use as little power as possible while still living up to the expectations people a...

BMW's alternative sports car, the i8, will enter production in 2014 with a price around €100,000. It hopes to find 10,000 willing buyers a year for the plug-in hybrid, gullwing sports car.  The production i8 is powered by a 170hp...

It seems like every year there is at least one blockbuster that uses a concept car to make the star look cool and edgy. Transformers used the Camaro, I, Robot used an Audi RSQ, and Tom Cruise may have kicked it off with a Lexus concept in Minority Re...

The i8 will be on sale before the end of the year

The BMW i8 is less than a year from hitting the market and is likely BMW’s best chance to convince the world that a range-extended electric vehicle can be a legitimate supercar. While the car is still months away, BMW has released a seri...

BMW brought the i8 Concept Spyder to the Auto Salon China in Beijing and have given the car's electric drive system a new name - eDrive. In the past the electric drivetrain in the i8 had fallen under the brand's EfficientDynamics name, but...

The i3 waiting list is about a month long

Ian Robertson, BMW’s head of marketing, says that the i8 has already fulfilled its first year sales predictions based on preorders alone. Sales of the i8 will not begin until mid-2014, and Robertson did not reveal the precise preorder number...

BMW says that the i8 will cost over €100,000 when it launches late next year. However, it says the i3 will be much more affordable, and the two cars will likely go on sale at about the same time.  BMW will launch separate i-seri...

Like Mercedes, BMW has entered the Los Angeles Design Challenge to design a police vehicle from 2025. However, where Mercedes created an actual, 1:1 scale model, BMW just sketched its design. It calls the car the ePatrol, and it is meant to b...

UPDATE: Images of the i-series at the Frankfurt Motor Show 13.09.2011 BMW began the i project in 2007 to explore its future in sustainable vehicles. Part of this project has been the MiniE and ActiveE electric vehicles that BMW has been leasing to s...

BMW is introducing two new police vehicles based on the X3 and 3 Series Touring this weekend at the General Police Equipment Exhibition & Conference in Leipzig, Germany. It also has two new armored cars, and BMW will also show two armored...