Review BMW i8 2015 get exclusive category as The World Green Car
The automotive business has completed an amazing about-face within just a decade, moving its concentration from gas-guzzling SUVs to fuel-sipping hybrids and gas-free electric vehicles. That has made gaining awards like the World Green Car of the Year far more vital, and this time around the winner is the BMW i8, so that it is the second consecutive win for BMW in such a prestigious category.
The BMW i8 was chosen from an initial entry list of 10 latest global vehicles, then a short list of three finalists that placed the winning BMW i8 as well as the Mercedes-Benz S 500 Plug-In Hybrid and the Volkswagen Golf GTE were all the way to World Green Car being announced in New York.
The i8 is a plug-in hybrid. If you charge it, it could actually go 15 miles on battery power before the engine requires to help out. Over usual commuting kilometers, the EPA tells the standard American may get the equivalent of 76 mpg, if and when they drive it sedately. That’s in what way it moves in all-electric mode, each time 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 sends power to the front wheels through a two-speed transmission. In the back, there’s a turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder gasoline engine generating 231-horsepower. That power leads to the rear wheels throughout a six-speed automatic transmission.
Put the BMW i8 into Comfort mode, and the i8 behaves like a hybrid, settling gas and electric power as needed. Go faster than 40 mph, it transmits power to every single wheel, for all-wheel drive.
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