BMW’s reveal of the new F30 BMW 3-Series comprises of a total of 5 different cars – the Sport Line, the Modern Line, the Luxury Line, the traditional M Sport package and the car you see here – the BMW ActiveHybrid 3. It’s basically a 335i with an electric motor integrated into the 8-speed automatic.
Maximum combined output is 340 horsepower and 450Nm of torque, with 306hp coming from the engine and about 54hp from the electric motor. The car can run on electric power only for between 3km to 4km on a full charge of the battery in the boot. Top speed in electric only mode is about 60km/h under load, and up to almost 160km/h during coasting.
I was hoping to see a more reasonably sized engine paired with an electric motor since BMW has the new four cylinder turbo N20 engines to play with, but BMW continues with the philosophy of focusing on high fuel efficiency with their EfficientDynamics turbo diesel models and keeping the ActiveHybrid cars as more of a greener performance car kinda thing. The ActiveHybrid 3 ended up being a smaller ActiveHybrid 5, or you can consider it a 335i with a KERS system, depending on how you want to look at things.
Average fuel consumption for the BMW ActiveHybrid 3 is expected to be less than 6.4 litres per 100km on the EU test cycle, which BMW says is a savings of 12.5 percent compared to other BMW models of a similar performance level. As a comparison, the 320d EfficientDynamics is rated at just 4.1 litres per 100km on the EU driving cycle.
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Paul has gone on overdrive with BMW already
BMW 3 series is an iconic car, it deserve the posts here
what do you expect him to write about? the bmw 3 series is the latest car to be launched and this definitely needs more attention than anything now. btw bmw, stupid move. you all obviously didn’t hear about bajet 2011. #bmwmarketingfail
Prius like FC, not Prius like x2 Performance.. Amazing..
Too much BMW in a day, I m quitting paultan for a week.
tomorrow i want bmw again please? :)
tell me why the iconic 3 series does not deserve a day post in here??
Good to have hybrid as most performance/turbo cars engine are noisy at idle and low speed. I am doubtful if it saves much in 335i. It designed for sport, no push no fun to drive. Make it diesel hybrid sounds more practical to me.
will it be tax free for hybrid cars?
bring it on.
Tax free hybrids are for engine capacities up to 2.0l only.
Now if only BMW would pair their hybrids with their lovely N20 turbo petrol or N47 turbo diesel engines. Then we’d get tax free BMW 3-series :D
why not ActiveHybrid+EfficientDynamics ? that would be super efficient car
what’s for a 340HP engine add on a 54Hp electric motor? its look like just a trick to drag down the fuel consumption ratio…
electric motor at least produce 1/3 of the engine HP, then it make sense.. rite?
and somemore ppl who get a car over 300hp, does he still care about the fuel usage at the first place??
I yearn and ache to have it…
The sports rim looks a bit…. eeerrr…. :(
I think its one too many write ups on the F30 already…
You guys must be brain damaged Audi salesmen. There are just 2 stories on the F30 – one main one by Anthony and one on the hybrid by Paul. The rest are just photo galleries, not even text.
“The car can run on electric power only for between 3km to 4km on a full charge of the battery in the boot. ” ?!?!?! Only 3-4km when fully on battery? Come on BMW, you can do it better.
sorry, actually i love audi so much..juz feel so angry tht so many bm fan
Tempting! but too many BMW on the road would make it looks like Wira or a civic :p
i love bm so much but slowly i hate it coz nowadays bm designs are so boring and so many lala boy and pirate cd vendor and ah long also drive bm..somemore they mod their cars into very lala look, now i link bm = lala car
read somehere that according to BMW, the current diesel tech still have the potential to be more efficient. btw, their hybrid are more for non-diesel loving countries (north america)….btw, Oz ppl have become diesel convert