2027 BMW i3 Sedan: Neue Klasse 800V EV With 463 HP and 440-Mile Range

The collapse of ICE vehicles can't come fast enough. 

29 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

The collapse of ICE vehicles can't come fast enough. 

By the time you are ready to retire your truck, you might just have a compact / mid-size EV Truck to replace it.

That is of course we wake up and remove Idiot47, Kia/Hyundai move forward with their electric trucks that are in test mule format now and Ford / GM / Toyota Deliver as all have said they are working on compact / mid-size EV Trucks.

2 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

By the time you are ready to retire your truck, you might just have a compact / mid-size EV Truck to replace it.

That is of course we wake up and remove Idiot47, Kia/Hyundai move forward with their electric trucks that are in test mule format now and Ford / GM / Toyota Deliver as all have said they are working on compact / mid-size EV Trucks.

I really hope so. 

I don't love the headlight area, but I feel like it is the kind of thing that could grow on my and look better in person. I appreciate them getting the kidney grills going in the correct direction again.

I don't love that screen, at all. However, it may be the kind of thing that just works well for the driver but photographs like crap from straight on, because of the "odd" shape. 

Those damn doorhandles. I understand the aero benefit of them, but I hate them. 

3 hours ago, G. David Felt said:

That is of course we wake up and remove Idiot47, Kia/Hyundai move forward with their electric trucks that are in test mule format now and Ford / GM / Toyota Deliver as all have said they are working on compact / mid-size EV Trucks.

Why is it on the president for the manufacturers to make and sell the vehicles? Our President is a complete idiot, but I also don't exactly think it should be on the people to compensate the manufacturers to make these vehicles. They had like a 15 year runway to establish themselves in this market and all they drug their feet until the last minute. As soon as the government took their(our) $7500 off the table, all the manufactures feel the need to "reevaluate" their EV portfolio and future. 

3 hours ago, ccap41 said:

I don't love the headlight area, but I feel like it is the kind of thing that could grow on my and look better in person. I appreciate them getting the kidney grills going in the correct direction again.

I don't love that screen, at all. However, it may be the kind of thing that just works well for the driver but photographs like crap from straight on, because of the "odd" shape. 

Those damn doorhandles. I understand the aero benefit of them, but I hate them. 

Why is it on the president for the manufacturers to make and sell the vehicles? Our President is a complete idiot, but I also don't exactly think it should be on the people to compensate the manufacturers to make these vehicles. They had like a 15 year runway to establish themselves in this market and all they drug their feet until the last minute. As soon as the government took their(our) $7500 off the table, all the manufactures feel the need to "reevaluate" their EV portfolio and future. 

I agree it should not be on the Government to fund this forever, but as long as they continue to give billions to the Oil industry, then why not give to the green / EV industry.

Biggest problem is that Idiot47 personal HATE for EVs had him waste Billions yanking out all the installed chargers and his personal IQ 79 Stupidity had him then also waste billions more on trying to turn everything around that has been done by past presidents rather than focus on governing and doing the right thing. More taxpayer money has been wasted on him attempting to go back to the 60's in all things and hurting this country.

At this point, HE IS Hurting the auto industry and as long as he is in office, he will do everything possible to hurt the companies that have created jobs and spent billions to design and develop new autos. Getting him out of the way can then under a stable federal hand allow companies to innovate and compete on products.

I'm going to reserve judgement on this until I see it. I think the pictures may be not doing it justice.  The recent BMWs look better in person than in photos.  They got the GM curse. 

20 hours ago, ccap41 said:

Those damn doorhandles. I understand the aero benefit of them, but I hate them. 

China may be coming to your rescue. If I can get some room to breathe this weekend, I've been meaning to write up an article about it. 

22 hours ago, ccap41 said:

Those damn doorhandles. I understand the aero benefit of them, but I hate them. 

What specifically do you not like about them?

I love the pop outdoor handles on my EV9. They are way better than the stupid approach Cadillac took.

Cadillac leaves them out and are a danger as they are a hook that can easily get broken.

4 hours ago, G. David Felt said:

What specifically do you not like about them?

I love the pop outdoor handles on my EV9. They are way better than the stupid approach Cadillac took.

Cadillac leaves them out and are a danger as they are a hook that can easily get broken.

lol no they don't. those retract.

3 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

lol no they don't. those retract.

Yes they retract when you get in to drive or lock it, but when the auto sits unlocked, they stay out and I know how easy it is to possibly break them as I was going between auto's at my 24hr fitness this week and thought it weird that they were out and as I went between, the door handle hooked my work out short pocket and bent a bit before I unhooked myself.  As I walked to enter the gym, a person came out and locked it, clearly forgetting they had left it unlocked. 

To me a hook type door handle is more dangerous than the circle loop door handle that pops out of my EV9.

Now I do get the fact that some companies like Tesla have failed to make sure the door handles pop out for emergency release / escape. Cadillac is also guilty of this for both outside and inside door handles.

Kia / Hyundai / Genesis did the following:

Mechanical backup access:

There is a hidden physical key slot behind the driver’s door handle area.

Using the physical key lets you mechanically unlock the door even if the handle doesn’t pop out or during a power outage.

All EVs have a manual interior door release that works without power so that people inside can always get out no matter the situation.

This is all on my quick info card on the EV and I checked online with the Kia digital manuals. Hyundai and Genesis also say the same thing when searching online.

1 minute ago, G. David Felt said:

Yes they retract when you get in to drive or lock it, but when the auto sits unlocked, they stay out and I know how easy it is to possibly break them as I was going between auto's at my 24hr fitness this week and thought it weird that they were out and as I went between, the door handle hooked my work out short pocket and bent a bit before I unhooked myself.  As I walked to enter the gym, a person came out and locked it, clearly forgetting they had left it unlocked. 

To me a hook type door handle is more dangerous than the circle loop door handle that pops out of my EV9.

Now I do get the fact that some companies like Tesla have failed to make sure the door handles pop out for emergency release / escape. Cadillac is also guilty of this for both outside and inside door handles.

Kia / Hyundai / Genesis did the following:

Mechanical backup access:

There is a hidden physical key slot behind the driver’s door handle area.

Using the physical key lets you mechanically unlock the door even if the handle doesn’t pop out or during a power outage.

All EVs have a manual interior door release that works without power so that people inside can always get out no matter the situation.

This is all on my quick info card on the EV and I checked online with the Kia digital manuals. Hyundai and Genesis also say the same thing when searching online.

I think that was “user error” of the person who was driving that particular vehicle.

5 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

I think that was “user error” of the person who was driving that particular vehicle.

Interesting, programmable door handles, if you unlock the auto, they will stay out, but if you approach it while locked with the fob, they will pop out and if within 3 min you do not open a door, pull back in keeping the auto locked.

1 minute ago, G. David Felt said:

Interesting, programmable door handles, if you unlock the auto, they will stay out, but if you approach it while locked with the fob, they will pop out and if within 3 min you do not open a door, pull back in keeping the auto locked.

 

Yeah, and if you’re a dumb dumb, like I expect that user was they left the key fob inside the car

On 3/19/2026 at 5:58 PM, G. David Felt said:

I agree it should not be on the Government to fund this forever, but as long as they continue to give billions to the Oil industry, then why not give to the green / EV industry.

Biggest problem is that Idiot47 personal HATE for EVs had him waste Billions yanking out all the installed chargers and his personal IQ 79 Stupidity had him then also waste billions more on trying to turn everything around that has been done by past presidents rather than focus on governing and doing the right thing. More taxpayer money has been wasted on him attempting to go back to the 60's in all things and hurting this country.

At this point, HE IS Hurting the auto industry and as long as he is in office, he will do everything possible to hurt the companies that have created jobs and spent billions to design and develop new autos. Getting him out of the way can then under a stable federal hand allow companies to innovate and compete on products.

The auto industry also has the ability to just "do the right thing" on their own, right? i get that the president is a POS and he makes bad decision after bad decision, but this also needs to be put onto the auto manufacturers. They had 15 years to get to the point of building affordable BEVs with adequate range, but they sat on their hands until like 2019 or so, while getting our tax dollars. Now that they aren't getting our extra tax dollars they just decide to cancel them? That sounds exactly like the "corporate greed" that all of us regular people are sick and tired of. 

On 3/20/2026 at 1:20 PM, G. David Felt said:

What specifically do you not like about them?

I love the pop outdoor handles on my EV9. They are way better than the stupid approach Cadillac took.

Cadillac leaves them out and are a danger as they are a hook that can easily get broken.

The fact that it is something oh so earily broken. They're unnecessarily funky to operate. Oh, and we get ice here in the Midwest and I can guarantee they are, at the very least, finicky when it's 0 degrees F and there's ice on the vehicle. 

The fact that there's even discussions on a door handle and how it operates, means it's been over-thought. These stupid flush door handles very likely would not stop me from buying something with them, but that doesn't mean I have to like that function. 

1 hour ago, ccap41 said:

The auto industry also has the ability to just "do the right thing" on their own, right? i get that the president is a POS and he makes bad decision after bad decision, but this also needs to be put onto the auto manufacturers. They had 15 years to get to the point of building affordable BEVs with adequate range, but they sat on their hands until like 2019 or so, while getting our tax dollars. Now that they aren't getting our extra tax dollars they just decide to cancel them? That sounds exactly like the "corporate greed" that all of us regular people are sick and tired of. 

Sorta true sorta not.  It implies that Tesla had some sort of magic but what it really was was funding from the legacies. For many of the early years of Tesla, the only way they made money was buy selling clean energy credits to the legacy makers. Big gas trucks literally funded Tesla's growth. The legacies didn't get tax dollars for EVs until later. The Bolt was developed with GM knowing it would lose money on it because GM would never be able to sell the clean energy credits like Tesla did.  The big tax incentives same later after 2020 during the Biden administration and it was the only way the legacies didn't lose their shirt on EVs.

But if you think about it. Ford, GM, Chrysler, Nissan, Volkswagen, and Subaru can't even make a profitable mid-size sedan right now, much less make money on EVs.

1 hour ago, Drew Dowdell said:

It implies that Tesla had some sort of magic but what it really was was funding from the legacies.

The things is, there was not a single thing stopping the legacies from jumping into the EV world head-on also. They knew they were funding Tesla and they could have stopped the bleeding early on with investing into BEVs. They had the ability to offset their own efficiencies, but chose not to. Right? Or was there something in writing that wouldn't allow that?

2 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

The things is, there was not a single thing stopping the legacies from jumping into the EV world head-on also. They knew they were funding Tesla and they could have stopped the bleeding early on with investing into BEVs. They had the ability to offset their own efficiencies, but chose not to. Right? Or was there something in writing that wouldn't allow that?

There was no money in it and except for Tesla, there's still no money in it. Even the Chinese EV manufacturers are being propped up by their government or by income from other lines of business (BYD is a huge leader in heavy trucks, buses, and construction equipment).  And I'm having serious doubts about Tesla now too. Tesla is alive on hype alone. 

Less then 10 years prior all three of the domestics were facing annihilation unless the government stepped in. It was, and still is, cheaper to just pay for clean energy credits from somewhere else than it is to spin up an entire EV platform. 

Even a gasoline platform can take a billion dollars to start, that's how much Sergio spent on the Giorgio Platform to get two Alfas, two Jeeps, and the Maserati Grecale.  That's what Benz spends on the S-Class platform. In the era after 2008, none of them were willing to take chances on unprofitable product. 

GM and Hyundai should really get a lot more credit for what they've done with their EVs.  GM's EVs don't make the headlines as much as everyone else's but the flexibility of their platform is unmatched by even Tesla. 

Ford should get a lot more credit with the Lightning and Mach-E.  The Lightning may not have been the absolute best solution, but it was a fantastic result for the incredibly short development time it had.  People look at the Lighning as a failure today, but look how fast Ford got that to market and, aside from some product mix mishaps, it's a perfectly capable truck for family duty.