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The i3 used for ride-alongs at the San Diego National Plug in Day event. Photos courtesy Chris LlanaThis weekend there were over about 100 National Plug In Day events held around the US. I was at the North Jersey event held at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey....

BMW released a four part video series which shows in great detail the construction process of the i3. From carbon fiber manufacturing, to battery pack construction and full vehicle assembly on the production line at Leipzig. It's rare that a manufacturer allows such a detailed look at how they make a car. There's over an hour of combined video in the...

A friend of mine posted a video that shows the manufacturing process of the 168 horsepower, 184 lb-ft electric motor used in the i3. It's nearly nine minutes long and pretty comprehensive so I thought I'd put it up here. Hat tip to George Batek for finding and posting it on the Facebook group pa...

Fitschen accepts the keys to Job 1 from BMW board member Harald KrugerSeries production of the BMW i3 began today in Leipzig. In less than two months the i3 will be available for sale in Germany and select European countries with US deliveries beginning 4 - 5 months later. BMW gave...

According to Automobilwoche a German car website, serial production of the BMW i3 will begin tomorrow, September 18th at BMW's Leipzig manufacturing plant. You can read (if you read German) or translate the article here.The i3 is scheduled to go on sale in select European countries...

There have been i3 videos popping up just about every day now. I posted a bunch of them a few days ago and when I find any of interest I'll post it here. This one by Automann TV spends a good amount of time inside the car so I thought it would be interesting to post. Make sure you change the settings to 720p or 1080p for the clearest look....

If you look at the two pictures of the i3 chassis above, you can see the one on the left has a large empty space to the right of the electric motor with only a support brace in the empty void. In the picture on the right there isn't any spare room and it appears as if the entire...

Rory Mcllroy and Gary Woodland competed in a driving challenge Tuesday to kick off BMW Championship week. The two competed against the clock to raise money for the Evans Scholars Foundation. For their participation, BMW donated $10,000 to the Foundation.BMW has also pledged to give an i3 to the first player who makes a hole-in-one this week at Conway...

With the Frankfurt Auto Show in full swing now, there have been various videos of the i3 posted on YouTube. Some, like the first one here were shot by journalists (that one was done by Horatiu Boeriu of BMWBLOG) getting a ride in an i3 and others vary from describe the navigation system to "taking a ride" around BMW's indoor track at IAA. There hasn't...

Source: JalopnikA few days ago Jalopnik posted some pictures of an i3 sitting on the side of the road on I-684 in New York and called it "Poor Little i3 Gives up, is Abandoned in NY Suburb". The author makes the assumption that the car broke down and the driver just left it there...

The Frankfurt Motor Show hasn't officially opened yet, but today is the first day the press had access. The i3 and i8 are the centerpieces of BMW's display this year and BMWBLOG is there snapping dozens of pictures of the i3 in various colors. There's no new news yet, but I wanted...