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BMW to begin testing BMW M Hybrid V8 with P66/3 engine

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BMW will shortly begin an intensive period of testing for the BMW M Hybrid V8, with which BMW M Motorsport will be battling for overall wins in 2023 in the IMSA GTP class of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The BMW M Hybrid V8 is powered by the P66/3 eight-cylinder turbo engine with supplementary electric drive.

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BMW Group Plant Munich begins series production of electric i4

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The first series-produced BMW i4 EV ( earlier post ) rolled off the production lines at BMW Group Plant Munich. For the plant and team, the launch of the BMW i4 is a milestone on the road to electric mobility. The majority will be fully electric. So Munich goes fully electric. Battery assembly.

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UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

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The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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Toyota was the most searched auto brand in 2023, but Tesla still dominates EV queries

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Studying the most searched auto and EV brands online While EVs continue to dominate the global mobility conversation, there are still plenty of hurdles to overcome before we can truly reach mass adoption. Although Toyota hails itself as an “electrified” brand, it currently only offers one fully electric model in the US – the bZ4X.

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Audi’s production electric e-tron quattro may set a new standard for vehicle handling; advanced vehicle dynamics control

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plug-in hybrid or full electric—models by 2025. He also observed, in a conversation on the eve of the LAAS, that if an automaker can launch a defining product, the game changes. Pint, who has been at Audi for less than one year, came from BMW where he worked on the electric powertrains for the i3 and i8.

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