When BMW released pricing for the new battery-powered i3 the other day, it had told us to wait until next Monday, July 29, for the world premiere of the car at parallel events in London, New York and Beijing, to see it in final production trim with no camouflage.
It appears that not everyone agreed on the date, with the Dutch team over at Autoblog.nl releasing a full set of low-resolution images of the electric supermini.
There's nothing much more to say about the outside other than we catch a glimpse of the opposite opening doors (the rear ones are much smaller than the front doors), but this is our first view of the car's interior, which just like the outside, has been softened down in terms of design compared to the original i3 Concept from 2011, but it still retains that futuristic feeling.
The electrified sub-compact model sports a 170-horsepower electric motor fed by a lithium-ion battery pack offering an 80 to 100 mile (130-160 kilometers) driving range on the standard model, and a lithium-ion battery and a motorcycle-sourced 650cc two-cylinder petrol engine in the range extender version for an increased driving range of around 180 miles (290 km).
