BMW M CEO: There is no alternative to going electric.
“I think there is no alternative to going electric. The only question is when. And that depends on when will the technology be capable of what we need. Because if we do an M car, it has to be better than its predecessor, and it has to be a typical M. If you look at it now, the M4 CSL is pretty much the benchmark. To do an electric car that’s faster . . . that’s a big challenge.
“Because high-performance street cars and racing are more or less the same. In GT racing, in endurance [racing] nowadays, race cars are built upon the series production cars. You take a race car like the M4 GT3, and it’s the engine of the. When, in the future, all cars are going to be electric, the race cars will also need to go electric, because there won’t be an ICE base car anymore.
“Our heritage is that we always looked at racing to see where it is going and what we could learn from it. This is something continued on from January with the XM and its V-8 plug-in hybrid system, connected to our LMDh hybrid prototype race car, the , which also has a V-8 hybrid drivetrain. You can see that when it works in racing, it works for high-performance road cars as well.“The DNA where we come from is that regardless of what powertrain we use, a new M3 should drive like an M3 and be better than its predecessor, no matter what is inside. That’s the goal we have for electric M cars of the future, so there’s no need to be afraid of the drivetrain, since it won’t change what M stands for. We wouldn’t do it.
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