1974 Chevy Engine Paint Colors
Your email was beatific successfully.
Close
When the history of avant-garde electric cars is written, the BMW i3 will acceptable go bottomward as article of an anomaly.
Its carbon-fiber-reinforced artificial anatomy shell, aluminum underpinnings, and battery-electric powertrain with an alternative ambit extender are a aggregate not offered by any added maker, now or conceivably ever.
We spent four canicule and 316 afar with a new 2017 BMW i3 REx archetypal this accomplished August, and accept been answer over our impressions of the car anytime since.
DON'T MISS: BMW i3 REx: owner's 3 years with range-extended electric car
Our analysis 2017 BMW i3 came with the alternative REx range-extended two-cylinder engine, and the anatomy panels agitated a arresting Protonic Blue acrylic color.
For the aftermost archetypal year, the 2017 BMW i3 REx got a ambit advancement from 72 to 97 miles, due to a array backpack that grew in accommodation from 22 kilowatt-hours to 33 kwh.
(The battery-electric adaptation after the ambit extender saw a ambit access from 81 afar to 114 miles, because it's lighter after an engine, generator, and gasoline tank.)
NOTE: While our car was the aforementioned Protonic Blue blush as apparent in these photos by clairvoyant and BMW i3 buyer Chris Neff, they absolutely appearance his car. We absitively to use his photos because they're added compelling, taken in a array of parks and bird sanctuaries he visits as allotment of his job with the New Jersey Audobon attention group. We acknowledge Chris for absolution us use his images.
2017 BMW i3 REx range-extended electric car [photo: Chris Neff]
Our impressions of the car were a mix of things we remembered from our 2014 analysis and some changes, of which there accept been absolutely a few, best of them almost airy from the outside.
The i3 is still both characteristic and polarizing in shape; it's a alpine auto with two continued advanced doors, two beneath rear doors that can abandoned be opened if the advanced is opened first, and no axial abutment colonnade (due to the backbone of its anatomy shell).
The interior, as before, is both adequate and calming, with a advanced cabin, an all-embracing birr with alternative open-pore copse trim, and controls abundantly centered about its brace of agenda displays, one abaft the caster and the added continuing appreciative of the birr center.
READ THIS: Chevy Bolt EV advised by BMW i3 driver: electric cars compared
On the road, the council feel is heavier, which makes the accomplished car feel somewhat added substantial.
We additionally acquainted the complete of the ambit extender was bigger suppressed. It retained its motorboat-engine bombinate from beneath the burden deck, but seemed beneath loud than the commensurable assemblage in our 2014 analysis car.
The BMW i3 charcoal one of the best energy-efficient cartage on the market.
2017 BMW i3 REx range-extended electric car [photo: Chris Neff]
Over the 540 afar adumbrated on the car's cruise computer (which we hadn't displace on demography over the car), the car delivered 4.1 afar per kilowatt-hour of array energy.
That's almost the aforementioned acceptance we recorded in a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, admitting over a altered route, and the BMW i3 REx is rated at 111 MPGe, while the Bolt EV comes in at a hardly college 119 MPGe.
Miles Per Gallon Equivalent, or MPGe, is a admeasurement of how far a car can biking electrically on the bulk of activity independent in 1 gallon of gasoline.
CHECK OUT: BMW i3 REx ambit extender: buyer assesses pros and cons of limited-power agent (Aug 2016)
Our time in the BMW i3 REx analysis car spanned a brace of brief recharges at home on a 240-volt Level 2 charging station, giving us 263.9 afar (83 percent) of our afar on array ability abandoned and 52.4 afar (17 percent) with the ambit extender running.
While the i3 REx is rated at abandoned 35 mpg back active in ambit extender mode, we were able to awning those gasoline afar application abandoned about bisected the adumbrated gas-tank capacity.
We abundantly ran the car in Comfort mode, with conceivably a third of our afar in EcoPro to analysis out that mode—though we backward abroad from EcoPro , which bargain berth blast to an afflictive point during a pleasant, balmy August.
