BMW Neue Klasse To Lower Battery Costs By 30% By Using Round Cells
BMW's dedicated electric car platform, Neue Klasse, will be inaugurated in 2025 on a 3 Series EV that will benefit from the new battery tech.
BMW's dedicated electric car platform, Neue Klasse, will be inaugurated in 2025 on a 3 Series EV that will benefit from the new battery tech.
Speaking during BMW's Q1 2022 earnings call, CEO Oliver Zipse revealed the Neue Klasse will be inaugurated on an EV in the 3 Series segment.
The BMW Group has announced its new Debrecen factory will be the company's first fossil fuel-free plant. It will become operational in 2025.
BMW will inaugurate the Neue Klasse platform in 2025 at its new factory in Debrecen, Hungary, with Munich to follow a year later.
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The Neue Klasse family of dedicated EVs coming in 2025 will usher in a lot of tech, but battery swaps won't be available.
Solid state batteries are considered the next evolutionary step in this direction and BMW is apparently working on that also
The future BMW X3 is allegedly carrying the NA0 codename, while the new BMW 3 Series is known internally as NA5.
BMW models coming from 2025 on the Neue Klasse platform will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Ride vision system-on-chip (SoC).
A maximum range of 700 kilometers (435) miles is rumored, along with fast charging at 350 kW is rumored for the 2025 BMW 3 Series NK1
While the NK1 BMW 3 Series is rumored to be all-electric, fans of combustion engines will also get a choice
BMW 3 Series and BMW X3 are the first new BMW models to be built on the Neue Klasse electric-first architecture