When the neue klasse 3 Series arrives later this year, it’ll mark the introduction of the first all-electric M car. While BMW will still make a combustion-engined M3, there will also be a fully-electric M3. It sounds like this car will be nuts.
BMW recently released a number of details about what will be powering the electric M3, and it sounds like this will be an outrageous car. First, it’ll have a motor for each wheel, making this one of the few quad-motor EVs on the market. The system is arranged in two electric drive units, one front and back, and each unit has two motors, one for each wheel.
There are two drive units on the new iM3, and each one holds two electric motors.
That should make this thing a rocketship, but it’ll also allow for a lot of interesting software integrations on the traction and stability side, and it’ll allow for torque vectoring as well. And, like the other all-wheel-drive M cars, the front axle can be decoupled and turned off, so this EV can slide around and drift.
The battery will have more than 100 kWh of usable energy, and the focus is on performance on the road and the racetrack. Like the iX3, the battery pack construction is all-new, with all the cells together to form one massive pack. This is an 800v system, which should allow for extremely fast charging. Cooling is also an emphasis, since using an EV in a high-performance scenario generates a lot of heat, and that discharges the battery quickly, hampers performance, and slows recharging. If you’re at a track day, you want to spend as much time as possible on track, not waiting to charge.
This car will be available in 2027, and we cannot wait to hear more.
