When the BMW Neue Klasse platform launches in 2025, it will come with new technologies and other innovations. The automaker has been providing information about the new architecture for several months, and at CES, BMW is showing the interior of the Neue Klasse car.
At the event, the automaker debuted a new-generation head-up display. It is wide, taking up the entire width of the windshield. The cabin doesn’t have a screen when BMW first showed it off in the i Vision Dee concept. However, BMW released a teaser image showing the thin and wide screen at the base of the windshield. The angle is odd, distorts the proportions, but seems to span the entire dashboard. Is the era of big screens in cars coming to an end? BMW CEO Oliver Zipse certainly thinks so.
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At CES, the BMW boss said he was “absolutely confident” that the large, center-console-based screen would be gone from the car. He believed it was a nuisance and that government regulation could force automakers to abandon it. Automakers have been putting bigger screens into cars, and entertainment options like movie streaming and cloud gaming have followed suit.
i Vision Dee is a window into the Neue Klasse platform, and we look forward to learning more about electric vehicles later this year. BMW is already developing the platform, and we know it will launch with a model in the mid-range segment, so expect to see something like the 3 Series and X3 in 2025. The automaker is already working on a high-performance EV with a quad-motor setup.
The Neue Klasse model won’t offer more than 621 miles (1,000 kilometers) of range, with the automaker promising they can add another 30 miles (48 km) of range for every minute it’s recharged. Production for the new platform starts in 2025 in Hungary before BMW starts building it in Germany. Its South Carolina plant will manufacture it by the end of the decade when at least six electric SUVs using the new platform will roll off the assembly line. There’s still a lot to learn about the concept and platform before the first model goes on sale in years.
