BMW Brilliance iX3 debuts for the first time, the first mass-produced car with the fifth-generation electric drive system, pre-sales start at 470,000

[Autohome? New car debut]? On September 14, BMW Brilliance iX3 was officially unveiled. The official also announced the pre-sale price of this car: 470,000-510,000 yuan. The new car will be launched at the end of the year Listed. It is currently produced at the BMW Brilliance plant in Shenyang, China, and supplied to other regions except the United States. In terms of power, the new car is equipped with a motor with a maximum power of 210kW (286Ps) and a 74kWh battery, with a cruising range of 500km. At the same time, officials once again emphasized that the BMW Group is expected to sell more than 7 million pure electric and plug-in hybrid new energy models by 2030, and the goal of providing 25 new energy models globally by 2023. Officially announced that consumers who make a reservation through the online platform Tmall Mall BMW Official Flagship Store or BMW China Official Mall and successfully pay a deposit of RMB 1,314 can choose one of the following two gift packages: Worry-free charging pre-sale gift package: namely One year of free public charging service. Customers choose a charging service provider that cooperates with BMW, and within one year after the service is activated, they can charge for free at charging piles nationwide that the service provider cooperates with BMW. Changyue maintenance pre-sale gift package: 6 years/120,000 kilometers of free maintenance service. The effective time is the starting time of the vehicle's warranty until it reaches 6 years or the mileage reaches 120,000 kilometers, whichever comes first.

●? Features of BMW iX3 new car Unlike the radical Tesla, BMW from Germany chose to use a mature platform to build this new pure electric car. Therefore, from the exterior styling, you can clearly smell the flavor of the current BMW X3 from the era of fuel vehicles. From the front part of the car, you can see that it retains BMW's classic kidney grille shape, and adopts an inner-closed design based on the characteristics of a pure electric vehicle. The blue decorative frame is a badge of its pure electric characteristics. In terms of size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4746mm/1891mm/1683mm respectively, and the wheelbase is 2864mm. The rear of the new car highly restores the design of the concept car. Since there is no internal combustion engine, you can’t find the exhaust pipe here. Because it is built on an existing platform, engineers did not choose to make drastic changes in the body structure, but made detailed modifications to make it more in line with the needs of pure electric vehicles. For example, in order to reduce wind resistance and weight, engineers specially created lightweight aluminum alloy wheels. It was further optimized in the wind tunnel laboratory to reduce air resistance by 5%. The interior is similar to the exterior, with iX3 retaining most of the X3's styling and layout. Blue decorative strips and blue ambient lights are used on the center console, electronic gear lever, steering wheel LOGO, etc. to highlight the attributes of pure electric vehicles. The new car is equipped with the latest BMW automatic driving assistance system Pro, which provides functions including assisted driving, traffic jam assistance and lane change assistance. Depending on the configuration of different models, new cars can also be equipped with automatic parking assistance system functions such as automatic parking, BMW driving recorder, tracking reversing assist, and remote 3D parking imaging. Power is the core of the BMW iX3. It is the first model equipped with BMW's fifth-generation electric drive system (eDrive). It is equipped with a motor with a maximum power of 210 kilowatts (286 horsepower) and a peak torque of 400 N·m. In terms of battery and cruising range, the new car is equipped with a battery with a capacity of 74kWh, and the energy density of the battery pack system reaches 154Wh/kg. The official cruising range under NEDC operating conditions is 500km, and the acceleration time from 0-100km/h is 6.8 seconds. In the NEDC standard test, its energy consumption per 100 kilometers was 16.7 kilowatt hours. In terms of charging performance, BMW iX3 uses an integrated charging unit that integrates the vehicle’s DC and AC charging control and management functions. DC charging can accept a maximum charging power of 100 kilowatts and can charge the battery from 0 to 80% in 45 minutes. With a maximum AC charging power of 11 kilowatts, it takes 7.5 hours to fully charge. In terms of charging network, by the end of 2020, BMW's charging service network will cover more than 270,000 charging piles, including 80,000 DC fast charging piles; in the future, charging piles will also cover airports, shopping malls, hotels, and dealer stores. and other key use areas for new energy vehicles; BMW’s exclusive reservation parking and charging service has been extended to 6 airports in 5 major domestic cities and nearly 10 popular city business districts; more than 250 authorized dealer charging networks from more than 120 cities have also It will be gradually opened before the end of 2020.

●? New car background China has the world’s largest electric vehicle market, and high-end pure electric vehicles have long been “dominated” by various product lines from Tesla. For the three major German luxury brands, Such a huge market share cannot be ignored. Of course, the high prices of purely imported models will inevitably weaken competitiveness. Therefore, BMW made the first mass-produced car with the fifth-generation electric drive system in Tiexi, the BMW iX3.

●?Competitors Thanks to more than a century of history, BMW, the golden brand, can continue to shine in the future pure electric era. Of course, its old rivals will also compete with it in the next era. It is not difficult to imagine that the domestically produced BMW iX3 will continue to perform love-hate relationships with the also domestically produced Mercedes-Benz EQC and Audi e-tron.

『The picture shows the 2020 EQC 350 4MATIC』

●Full text summary For the German luxury brand with a century-old history, the technical accumulation of various types and directions is an important cornerstone of its success. For BMW, through the previous i brand, people already have a certain understanding of its technical strength. Now the first domestic product of the fifth-generation pure electric platform developed by it has come to the forefront. In this new energy-driven era, it is exciting to see whether iX3 can put BMW on the sales throne. (Text/Picture?Autohome?Tang Dynasty)