BMW Planning an All-Electric Vehicle by 2013
About half of the world’s population resides in big cities, and in those big cities are millions and millions of automobiles driving around and spewing out noxious emissions that have been proven to be hurting the earth’s atmosphere. How does one solve this sort of problem? By coming up with a vehicle that doesn’t spew out those noxious emissions, and the best way to do that—at least to date—is through the all-electric vehicle, which BMW continues to show increased interest in.
In Woodside, luxury cars have traditionally been of heavy stock, made from steel and sheet metal and containing a gigantic, heavy gas engine in the belly of the vehicle. What BMW is planning, however, is an all-electric car (nicknamed “Project i”) that substitutes carbon fiber for the heavier metals cars are currently made of. By doing both those things, cars will run smoother and easier and healthier for the air, and that’s the aim of every automaker in the industry right now.
BMW Woodside dealers are nothing but excited to get this vehicle on their lots—currently predicted for sometime in 2013—but they weren’t always sure that this dreamy fantasy would ever become a reality. More than one pundit has speculated that many automakers talk about making the greenest of improvements but don’t always really plan on putting the time and money into these dreams to make them happen. BMW has proven that they really intend on following through by coming up with concept sketches, announcing plans to build a carbon-fiber assembly plant in America, and even leaking that there could be a BMW sub-brand released for the sole purpose of producing these electric cars.
EV’s are nothing new, as the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt due out later this year have already proven. But for a luxury vehicle manufacturer like BMW to be joining in the game speaks volumes for where the automotive industry is headed in the next decade. Dependence on foreign oil will be all but forgotten very soon, and instead we’ll be driving around our clean vehicles. For the half of us that live in those big cities, we may even start to see the stars at night. Can you imagine a world where that’s possible? BMW sure can, and they’re bringing that dream to you in only a short number of years.
