While BMW's annual press conference, group chairman, Norbert Reithofer, revealed that the prototype sustainable "New Energy Vehicle" (NEV) will have its world premiere at the Shanghai Motor Show held from April 21 next. The New Energy Vehicle will be a car built in China, for China. Based on the BMW 5 Series, the new car will have a long platform that will allow more space, while the mechanics will use a hybrid plug-in schema generation.
Reithofer has not added other elements on the mechanical side of the car, but it's easy to assume that the thermal unit used by the New Energy Vehicle "could be that of the 5 Series ActiveHybrid, which is the 3.0-liter six-cylinder petrol engine with double charged and capable of delivering 305 hp, while the electric engine could develop 54 bhp.
In the river of words listed at the conference, the chairman of the House of Monaco has also made the point of the current situation of the German manufacturer. The Group (BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce) in 2010 managed to sell 1.22 million vehicles, well, of which 234,000 units under the brand name with the 2711 Mini and Rolls-Royce.
By next year, BMW, in addition to the aforementioned "New Energy" and the innovative range of environmentally friendly, "the BMW", the market will launch the new Mini coupe, the new BMW M5 and the second generation of the BMW 1 Series, not to mention the recent debut of the 6 Series coupe and convertible in progress, and the sporty BMW 1 Series coupe M.
The new technology will be represented also by the enlargement of TwinPower BMW Turbo that will be expanded gradually to all gasoline and diesel engines in the range of BMW EfficientDynamics. This technology not only be used for four and six cylinder engines in the future will see his debut on a new family of compact three-cylinder engines.
Another important element for the growth of the propeller House will be represented by alliances with other groups or automotive component manufacturers. In fact the Group Teutonic this topic is not new, since the partnership that the league since 2006 with the French PSA Group (Peugeot and Citroen), from which they were born a family of 4-cylinder engines used on the Mini models.
In the future, if the European competition authorities allow it, it might even be born a new joint-venture between the two groups that will allow the production of innovative electric car. 
Reithofer has not added other elements on the mechanical side of the car, but it's easy to assume that the thermal unit used by the New Energy Vehicle "could be that of the 5 Series ActiveHybrid, which is the 3.0-liter six-cylinder petrol engine with double charged and capable of delivering 305 hp, while the electric engine could develop 54 bhp.
In the river of words listed at the conference, the chairman of the House of Monaco has also made the point of the current situation of the German manufacturer. The Group (BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce) in 2010 managed to sell 1.22 million vehicles, well, of which 234,000 units under the brand name with the 2711 Mini and Rolls-Royce.
By next year, BMW, in addition to the aforementioned "New Energy" and the innovative range of environmentally friendly, "the BMW", the market will launch the new Mini coupe, the new BMW M5 and the second generation of the BMW 1 Series, not to mention the recent debut of the 6 Series coupe and convertible in progress, and the sporty BMW 1 Series coupe M.
The new technology will be represented also by the enlargement of TwinPower BMW Turbo that will be expanded gradually to all gasoline and diesel engines in the range of BMW EfficientDynamics. This technology not only be used for four and six cylinder engines in the future will see his debut on a new family of compact three-cylinder engines.
Another important element for the growth of the propeller House will be represented by alliances with other groups or automotive component manufacturers. In fact the Group Teutonic this topic is not new, since the partnership that the league since 2006 with the French PSA Group (Peugeot and Citroen), from which they were born a family of 4-cylinder engines used on the Mini models.
In the future, if the European competition authorities allow it, it might even be born a new joint-venture between the two groups that will allow the production of innovative electric car.
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