{"id":79942,"date":"2025-01-27T06:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T11:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=79942"},"modified":"2025-01-27T06:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T11:54:55","slug":"bmw-says-rivals-wrong-make-electric-cars-look-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=79942","title":{"rendered":"BMW Says Rivals Are Wrong To Make EVs Look Different"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you know your BMWs like the back of your hand, it\u2019s tricky to identify which has a gas engine and which is purely electric. With radical exceptions like the i3, i8, and the more recent iX, vehicles from Bavaria essentially share the design, regardless of what powers them. Other than details like the closed-off kidney grille and \u201ci\u201d badging, there\u2019s a nearly perfect symmetry between ICE and EV models.<\/p>\n

The shared design language will continue in the Neue Klasse era. BMW recently told us it will continue to unify the appearance of its cars. So much so that you\u2019ll not be able to immediately notice which is which<\/a>. However, EVs will have shorter front sections since there\u2019s no combustion engine taking up space underneath the hood. Some rival brands have come up with a separate design language for zero-emission models, and that\u2019s apparently a big no-no in BMW\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

Speaking with\u00a0Green Car Reports<\/em>, Chief Development Officer Frank Weber said separating designs between ICE and EV models is \u201cprobably one of the biggest mistakes some of the competitors were making.\u201d This is an indirect jab at Mercedes, as its EQ models<\/a> look entirely different from similarly sized gas\/diesel cars. The three-pointed star has been widely criticized for its egg-shaped EVs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weber says BMW will stick to its one-design-fits-all formula. He pledged, \u201cThere is no difference between an ICE car and a battery electric car.\u201d He argues that splitting the two makes EVs look more modern and ICEs outdated, which the company wants to avoid. Spy shots of the new i3 electric sedan have revealed that it\u2019ll look much like the next-generation 3 Series (G50).<\/p>\n

Due to receive an imminent Life Cycle Impulse, the striking iX is rumored to be living on borrowed time. BMW has allegedly decided against developing a second generation. Instead, a purely electric version of the next-gen X5 (G65)<\/a> could take its place in the lineup. The iX5 is also likely BMW\u2019s first hydrogen vehicle you\u2019ll be able to buy when it arrives in 2028. Axing the iX and making an iX5 will further unify the Neue Klasse design language.<\/p>\n

Source: Green Car Reports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unless you know your BMWs like the back of your hand, it\u2019s tricky to identify which has a gas engine and which is purely electric. With radical exceptions like the i3, i8, and the more recent iX, vehicles from Bavaria essentially share the design, regardless of what powers them. Other than details like the closed-off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}