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First drive review: 2021 BMW 330e plug-in hybrid hits the right numbers but shuns its sport-sedan heritage

Green Car Reports

“OK Boomer,” jeered BMW last November, in a social-media ad for its first fully electric SUV, the iX. The brand once owned the sport-sedan. It was a reference to an already outdated meme that feels so last-decade now.

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McLaren investing £1B in R&D over new 6-year plan; 50% of cars to feature hybrid tech by 2022

Green Car Congress

Research engineers at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England, are also in the early prototype stages of the development of a fully-electric powertrain to evaluate its possible use in a future generation of an Ultimate Series car. At least 50% of McLaren cars will feature hybrid technology by 2022. But we won’t stop there.

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