BMW reportedly canned planned electric sports car with almost 1,000 kW
According to a report in the BMW Blog, there could have been an electric super sports car from Munich. When the market for electric cars was booming a few years ago, a team of BMW executives investigated the idea of an ultra-modern sports car. The project is said to have “gained traction within the company,” as Horatiu Boeriu, founder of the BMW Blog, writes.
The article mentions a “sleek, electrifying supercar boasting approximately 1,300 horsepower” – the equivalent of over 950 kW. “The design was sporty, daring, and unmistakably futuristic, according to our sources,” as Boeriu writes. However, the clay model, which had already been produced, will probably not see the light of day in the foreseeable future: doubts about its technical feasibility and, above all, its profitability in the currently difficult EV market have led the BMW Board of Management to stop the project in the course of this year.
What may have contributed to this decision is the fact that super sports cars have traditionally not played a major role at BMW. Only the BMW M1 at the end of the 1970s is an exception, although the sports car only later became a cult object: in its three-year construction period, the M1 certainly had problems finding enough buyers. With the i8, BMW had a futuristic sports car in its range in the meantime, but with its plug-in hybrid and three-cylinder petrol engine, it looked sportier than it was. A possible successor model called the i16 did not make it past the concept car stage (as the BMW Vision M Next, vehicle in the article image).
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