BMW shows off new technology - Kelley Blue Book
The sexiest one-off to debut was a highly modified hydrogen-powered BMW i8 , but the automaker also took the wraps off a BMW 2 Series Active Tourer Plug-in Hybrid featuring an eDrive-assisted AWD system as well as a new 5-door BMW 1 Series SAV... Leveraging fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) knowledge gained as part of a collaborative deal with Toyota, BMW showed a more sophisticated but simpler-to-build version of a hydrogen FCEV powertrain it is readying for production by 2020. Fitted to... The eDrive engine is capable of being used in future BMW "i" models and plug-in vehicles. Stepping up its plug-in game, BMW also revealed a prototype of the Euro-only 2 Series Active Tourer that pairs a transversely-mounted 3-cylinder TwinPower Turbo Efficient Dynamics gasoline engine boosted by a high-voltage generator up front with... It's a mirror image of the configuration found on the BMW i8 Plug-in and previews technology destined for other series-production BMW models. Source: www.kbb.com
