By BMW The heaviest SUV and heaviest vehicle won’t arrive until next year as the production version of the XM SUV. Australian store Sell cars spoke with BMW 7 Series project leader Christoph Fagschlunger about how BMW is developing the mass and gravity of small planets.
The new one battery-electric 2023 BMW i7 weighs 5,820 pounds. To be fair, that’s only 132 pounds heavier than the battery-powered Mercedes-AMG EQS and 66 pounds more than a car. Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB. It also weighs 159 pounds more than the most powerful version of 2023 X7, M60i. Fagschlunger said the end of the makeover is near, “I don’t think cars will be heavier than they are now, and there are many reasons for that.”
While electrification is to blame for the sudden weight gain, we must remember that enthusiasts (like us) have been whining about heavier cars for at least 15 years. The main culprit was not the batteryBut luxury features, safety equipment, the growing use of four-wheel drive and the popularity of crossovers and SUVs. “Cars are getting heavier even without electrification, with safety regulations, then NCAP and then luxury,” says Fagschlunger. He explains that a modern luxury chair weighs at least 88 pounds more than it did 20 years ago, Car Sales said, adding that some seats exceed 220 pounds. The 22-way motors, massage mechanism and climate control gear are heavy. This becomes a thorny issue with regards to safety, because heavier vehicles need heavier structures to pass increasingly stringent crash test.
However, BMW engineers believe that technology will begin to remove mass from the platforms thanks to advances such as more energy-efficient batteries and wider use of active noise cancellation ( sound is severely deaf). Vendors are working on features like car audio that use the architecture as a speaker, instead of loading a car up with a woofer and tweeter (the speakers are heavy too). Let’s hope the diet starts before the industry hits the wall. Fagschlunger warns impending: “Car size will have a natural end one day, when you can’t fit properly. in the garage or turning around the corner. That day is drawing near.” ”
If you want to see how far the 7 Series has come, PD Evolution has just been released an eight-minute tour of how the executive sedan has evolved since its debut in 1977 – when it weighed just 3,527 pounds.
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