BMW's First All-Electric M-Car Prototype Is This Sick Quad-Motor, Widebody i4

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BMW's First All-Electric M-Car Prototype Is This Sick Quad-Motor, Widebody i4
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Think of this as taking a taser to the M3 and M4.

Approximately two years ago, we reported a rumor that BMW intended to develop a full M version of its all-new, all-electricsedan, and now the company itself has all but confirmed such a car is already in development with news of a new four-motor prototype. Unlike the current BMW M-tuned i4 M50 , this new i4 is aiming for a performance level to actually rival, or even eclipse the gas-powered BMW M3 and M4.

The front of the i4 M prototype gets an adapted strut adopted from the BMW M3 and M4 models that offers high torsional rigidity for dynamic driving conditions. The positioning of the car's radiator units has also been remapped for a higher performance application based on the M division's expertise on its other performance cars. If you've ever looked at a X3 M, for example, it's radiator city behind the front clip.

"Electrification opens up completely new degrees of freedom for us to create M-typical dynamics," says Dirk Häcker, Head of Development at BMW M GmbH."And we can already see that we can exploit this potential to the maximum, so that our high-performance sports cars will continue to offer the M-typical and incomparable combination of dynamics, agility and precision in the locally emission-free future.

This results in better performance in adverse weather as well as higher cornering speeds in spirited driving. Specifically, they claim to have ironed out issues with understeer already by increasing the drive torque for the outside rear wheel in parallel to the steering angle.

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