Review BMW i8 2015 earn popular category as The World Green Car

Review BMW i8 2015 earn popular category as The World Green Car

The automotive corporation has carried out an incredible about-face in less than a decade, switching its target from gas-guzzling SUVs to fuel-sipping hybrids and gas-free electric vehicles. That has made receiving honors like the World Green Car of the Year much more important, and this time around the winner is the BMW i8, that makes it the second consecutive win for BMW at this reputable category.

The BMW i8 was picked out from a starting entry list of 10 different global vehicles, then a short selection of three finalists that presented the winning BMW i8 along with the Mercedes-Benz S 500 Plug-In Hybrid and the Volkswagen Golf GTE were all the way to World Green Car being declared in New York.

The i8 is a plug-in hybrid. Whenever you charge it, it could go 15 miles on battery power before the engine needs to help out. Over typical driving distances, the EPA says the typical American will be able to get the equivalent of 76 mpg, if they drive it sedately. That’s exactly how it moves in all-electric mode, in case it operates as a front-wheel-drive car with an economical 129 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque. Top speed for zero-emissions propulsion is 75 mph, and it takes its sweet, silent time getting there.

In the front wheels there’s a 96-kilowatt electric motor--the equivalent of 131 horsepower. It delivers power to the front wheels via a two-speed transmission. In the back, there’s a turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder gasoline engine producing 231-horsepower. That power moves to the rear wheels with a six-speed automatic transmission.

Keep the BMW i8 into Comfort mode, and the i8 reacts like a hybrid, working gas and electric power as needed. Go faster than 40 mph, and it passes power to every single wheel, for all-wheel drive.