Review BMW i8 2015 get famous category as The World Green Car

Review BMW i8 2015 get famous category as The World Green Car

The automobile company has accomplished an incredible about-face within a decade, moving its aim from gas-guzzling SUVs to fuel-sipping hybrids and gas-free electric vehicles. That has made receiving tributes like the World Green Car of the Year far more important, and this time around the winner is the BMW i8, that makes it the second consecutive win for BMW at this exclusive category.

The BMW i8 was selected from a primary entry list of 10 different global vehicles, then a short number of three finalists that included the winning BMW i8 together with the Mercedes-Benz S 500 Plug-In Hybrid and the Volkswagen Golf GTE were on the go to World Green Car being declared in New York.

The i8 is a plug-in hybrid. Whenever you charge it, it could actually go 15 miles on battery power before the engine has to support. Over normal driving distances, the EPA claims the normal American can get the equivalent of 76 mpg, if they drive it sedately. That’s exactly how 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.

Among 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 creating 231-horsepower. That power will go to the rear wheels thru a six-speed automatic transmission.

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