First electric BMW 3 Series leaves the production line, i3 reveal set for the coming months

The first pre-manufacturing BMW i3 — in utterly different words, the marque’s first electrical 3 Sequence — has been inbuilt a single day at the Bavarian label’s Plant Munich manufacturing line.

Whereas prototypes of the i3 had been in testing on European and American roads for some time, these had been handmade test mules.

The latest constructing, by which a slight preference of what BMW calls “reach-series test vehicles” had been assembled neatly on the manufacturing line, method the affirm of the auto can fully be months away.

“This marks the starting of the last preparation fragment for the commence of series manufacturing in the 2d half of of 2026,” BMW announced by media open.

Subsequent-gen 3 Sequence shall be offered with electrical, hybrid and petrol engines

The following-generation 3 Sequence will continue to be offered with petrol and hybrid engines nonetheless an all-electrical i3 mannequin shall be made available for the first time.

Whereas query for SUVs with ease outstrips curiosity in sedans, the three Sequence stays essential mannequin for BMW, due to its 51-three hundred and sixty five days heritage and enduring driver allure.

Below the skin, the combustion and electrical 3 Sequence versions shall be basically based fully on entirely utterly different platforms with just a puny utterly different size, nonetheless they’re going to construct on substantially the same styling.

Codenamed ‘NA0’, the i3 sedan will use BMW’s latest-and-most entertaining EV architecture, borrowing the Neue Klasse chassis from the lauded unique iX3 midsize SUV.

A minimum of in Europe, a substantial vary of i3 powertrains shall be offered seemingly all over two battery sizes.

Unusual iX3 provides sure hints for 3 Sequence trust and specification

The electrical i3 is anticipated to construct on just a puny more conservative styling than the iX3, nonetheless ask a substantial gloss gloomy veil stretch all around the front cease around kidney grilles.

Interior, ask a the same floating touchscreen to the 17.9-lunge unit from the iX3, along with optional fitment of BMW’s unique ultra-huge 43-lunge Panoramic Vision panel that runs the scale of the defective of the windscreen.

Standard spec’ is anticipated to encompass a pitcher panoramic roof while alternate ideas will encompass high-grade driver assistance and autonomy aspects and Harman-Kardon audio.

Within the intervening time, the ‘G50’ petrol and hybrid versions will use a modernised update of the outgoing ‘G20’ 3 Sequence’ Cluster Structure chassis.

i3 to enter manufacturing first with petrol, Touring and M3 fashions to advise

Chasing Automobiles understands that the electrical i3 will slide into manufacturing first, seemingly in July 2026, with meeting of the petrol model following in November of this three hundred and sixty five days.

Early 2027 will scrutinize a controversial electrical iM3 with chassis code ‘ZA0’ slide into manufacturing in Munich with a petroleum M3 vary following a three hundred and sixty five days later.

By mid-2027, Touring (location wagon) versions will slide into manufacturing, as neatly as a traipse-in hybrid powertrain for the combustion 3 Sequence.

Both rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive versions of both the electrical i3 and combustion 3 Sequence shall be available.