It may look like an electric 7 Series in M Performance guise, but this i7 M70 is far more interesting. BMW has swapped out its standard battery pack to test a more advanced technology. No,…
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the BMW Tech Office in Silicon Valley this week, the Bavarians provided a glimpse into their latest battery advancements. In addition to offering a sneak peek into the upcoming next-generation…
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Earlier in the year, BMW and Ford announced they’d be working with Solid Power, to develop solid-state batteries for EVs. Solid-state batteries are the future of EV technology, as they offer better range, faster charging,…
Solid state batteries are the future. They feature higher capacities from smaller, lighter battery packs, while also using no rare earth materials, and don’t need the sort of cooling current battery packs do. At the…
There’s a lot riding on the success of BMW’s future Neue Klasse platform. Announced last year, the new architecture developed by the Munich-based car maker is supposed to take the company into the electrified era…
Electrified cars are on the rise, regardless of whether or not you want them to be. Be it plug-in hybrid models or purely electric ones, the electrification of personal mobility is shaping up. Therefore, the…
At the moment, most automakers are in a bit of a battery-race to develop the next generation of battery technology. It’s like the space race just a lot less exciting and the Russians aren’t involved…
It’s becoming clearer by the day that electric vehicles will take over the industry one day. Whether that will happen in the near future or whether it will take another two or three decades, remains…
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