The electric BMW i4 will get a more affordable version
A liftback with a reduced battery and a less powerful engine will be on the assembly line in November.
BMW presented a new, most affordable version of the i4 electric liftback – the i4 eDrive35. It joins the i4 eDrive40 and i4 M50 modifications that debuted last year.
The novelty is equipped with a single electric motor of 210 kilowatts (286 hp) and 400 Nm, which rotates the rear wheels. The consumed capacity of the battery is 66 kilowatt-hours – against 81.5 kilowatt-hours, which have older variants. The new battery pack is not only smaller – it also charges more slowly: the maximum power of the received current has been reduced from 200 to 180 kilowatts. Refueling from 10 to 80% will take 32 minutes. A full charge should be enough for 490 kilometers of travel according to the WLTP cycle.
At the same time, the BMW i4 eDrive35 is almost not inferior to the 340-horsepower i4 eDrive40 in dynamics: the acceleration time to 100 km/h increased from 5.7 to 6 seconds exactly. Instead, the range of the ‘forty’ model is as much as 100 kilometers longer.
Otherwise, the novelty does not differ from the i4 eDrive40: it has a similar set of standard and optional equipment, including a curved display under the control of the eighth-generation operating system, which combines the instrument panel and the screen of the infotainment complex.
Production of the BMW i4 eDrive35 will start at the Munich plant only in November, but orders for this modification are being accepted now. In the US, it will cost $52,395 – $3,505 less than the next-generation version. For the top-end i4 M50 in the States, they ask from $67,300.
