BMW will not renew the i3

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BMW has no plans for a successor to the i3. Pieter Nota, head of BMW sales told the Financial Times that the German luxury carmaker will instead concentrate on merging battery and plug-in technology with its other vehicles, while it drums up some new purely electric vehicles.

“There’s no specific plan for an i3 successor,” said Nota, “We are now bringing electrification more to the mainstream.” While BMW plans to put out PHEV versions of its best-selling models, looming emissions targets have also prompted them to plan 13 battery-only models by 2023. - Electrive

The polluting internal combustion engine's days are numbered.

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1. Glad the still plan to produce PHeV. It is an important transition technology until they have a

viable infrastructure for all electric outside of local areas