electric sports car

the bmw i8 is a head-turner of epic proportions but actually has morelayers than just that it is sporty it is when especially if you consider that it is aplugin gasoline-electric hybrid now you'llnotice overall the styling has its own kind layered approach andthere's a purpose to that i you'll see aerodynamics being a hugepart love how the car works and how it staysefficient you've got one intake hear that it's great cooling radiator in thefront

on and then even hear this a littleintake is for what bmw calls and air curtainthe air floats around here and actually creates a barrier alongsidethe spinning wheel which actually improves airflow now bmw cause a flaw that arethe at the flow stream and it actually is guided up likes onnn sup shooting through thisdocked here so this is actually a functional elementthis a central hole in the car this air shoot

serves a purpose but it also makes heckup the unique styling elements for the car now the hybrid aspect to theiaea might sound familiar because you canplug it in and charge it up and you can go according to bmw 22 miles in electric-only mode before a gasengine takes over and takes you a few hundred i miles more according to the epa it'sactually more like 15 miles of range an electric power the difference here isthat the front wheels are powered by anelectric motor

driving a two-speed transmission and therear wheels are driven by a 1.5 liter turbochargedthree-cylinder through a six-speed transmission so yougot all-wheel-drive with one tie promoter in the front onein the rear now you can charge it up before you head out that kinda the point any plugin on bmwprovides this basic household charger that you would plug in and you can rechargeidk the battery in about three and a half hours

now if you have a level 2 charger youcould do it and more like an hour hour half one element that always getattention in a car is towards the go upward um some people call the scissor doorstypically scissors go straight up this is more of a wing collar sizzling if youwish what are the ways that bmw saves weight is through the use of carbonfiber reinforced plastic which has about half the weight of steel

but equal strength i'm you can actuallysee the carbon fiber here i on the door exposing a couple placesthat also makes up this entire cell which bmw calls the i life module that's where the peopleare i'm now you'll see for looking into thatthis is a two plus two which a really means two seats in thefront and two things in the back to look likeseats but couldn't really company much as anyone but you'll be glad to have this becausethe storage compartment in the back

is only 4.7 cubic feet which is actuallyquite small for cars extreme looking at cia there aren't that many drawbacks littlebit tougher to get into because its low-slung and once you're inside i noticed thatthe sign when does not go down all the waywhich seems like a small thing but i did have a little trouble reaching the told today on the way to the studio i'vealso found that the a-pillars here in front i

jumped forward so they are kinda in yourline of sight close enough to your your eyes that their pretty widely canbe a little bit obstructed the driving experience in the i eight turns out to be very goodand typically bmw there is a lot of power all told the electric motor gives you129 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque the gas engine even though it is smallput up to 128 horsepower and 236 pound-feet of torque that's moreoutput per liter than any other bmw

engine putting together you got 357 horsepower420 pound-feet of torque what is active you 0 to 60 in about moremike magnums with the mall unreal hours were in themood in mom and it does it without slippingbecause it is all wheel drive that also plays a part in the handlingwhich is good the balance front to rear is againtypically bmw very good um overall it behaves exceptionally well

when you're in sport mode %uh it seemslike the front wheels the rear wheels both motors are talking to each other andreally being seamless i think the only shortfalls if you're in one othermore ego friendly mode deco pro mode and then younail the accelerator as you need to go thatis when the car is not not prepared to and you'll be a littlebit on the lightning while the gas engine turns on michigan forward otherwise the drivingexperience

and the ride quality very good now thevisibility to the rear is actually pretty good and for parking purposes you have a lotthe cameras forward back there's a surround camerasystem for essentially looking down on top of the car you also have i forward and rear sonar sensors so you're set in thatregard about bmw goes out of its way to make this look like a regular car themain differences you have and he drive button thecompressor put it in

all-electric mode i which is certainly powerful enough but not quiteas quick as a car can be brings you up to 75 miles per hour youwanna go up to 155 miles per hour you need to the assistant up the gas engine as wellthe design a at the cabin here's actually kind of multilayered in its own way i a copy some other shapes from theoutside i'm oftentimes i find a vehicle for a bit too busy too manytextures and stuff that's

somehow this happens to work reallygreat have a 10-point to inch screen up here close to your line of sight i and stillhave the idrive controller down here right whereyou're hand rests on and here's a little low on storagespace partly because the battery pack runs thelength vehicle down low so not a lot of depth here a one smallcup holder here and to better ones back here if youhappen to be double-jointed if you're up to me the

i aids electric-only range would belonger than 15 miles and then once it hit that point theefficiency would be better than 28 miles per gallon combined on premium fuel but it's not just about efficiency hybrid technology serves alot of purposes and in this car it serves the purpose of all-wheel-driveand high-performance if you don't know the story of the teslamodel s you probably don't recognize that efficiency high-tech and luxury all go together they are all about imageand they tend to equal

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