BMW M has kickstarted the testing of electric cars for innovative drive and chassis control systems in their high-performance sports car segment.
This is to step up the pace of BMW’s electrification plans “to have more than two million fully-electric vehicles on the roads by the end of 2025” and more than double last year’s sales of fully-electric vehicles.
Setting more ambitious targets and releasing attractive models, the purely electric drive system is combined with innovative control systems to redefine the combination of dynamics, agility and precision.
“Electrification opens up completely new degrees of freedom for us to create M-typical dynamics,” said Dirk Häcker, Head of Development at BMW M GmbH.
“And we can already see that we can exploit this potential to the maximum, so that our high-performance sports cars will continue to offer the M-typical and incomparable combination of dynamics, agility and precision in the locally emission-free future,” he commented.
BMW celebrates its 50 year launch this year and is geared for the market launch of the all-electric BMW i7 M70, the first BMW M car based on an all-electric luxury sedan following the entry of the BMW i4 M50 performance car.
BMW has already launched the all-electric BMW iLi MS0 performance car and the BMW iX M60 this year.
With China and Europe leading global electric car sales, many countries are phasing out sales of internal combustion engine cars within the next two decades, as did several car manufacturers.
In 2021, electric car sales more than doubled to 6.6 million, representing close to 9 percent of the global car market.
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