The automaker's President Harald Krueger struck a comparatively modern tone amid its yearly shareholder meeting in Munich this week, however the CEO was much more down to earth in his visualizations, examining the sorts of advancement his organization expected convey to showcase inside the following decade. Krueger depicted BMW's moderately close term procedure as containing "both developmental and problematic components."
Subsequent to looking marginally back to the BMW i3 of 2013, Krueger, anticipated forward to the 2018 BMW i8 Roadster, and considerably all the more compellingly, another, component pressed vehicle for 2021. The executive didn't let out a huge amount of insights about the anticipated auto – sufficiently only to make the auto-watching world sit up and focus.
"[The i8] will be followed in 2021 by the BMW i NEXT," Kreuger told shareholders, "our new development driver, with self-ruling driving, advanced network, canny lightweight outline, an absolutely new inside and at last bringing the up and coming era of electro-portability to the street."
Keeping in mind he didn't offer much else about the auto itself, Kreuger had bounty more to say in regards to self-driving vehicles, a subject prodding much level headed discussion as to both security and legitimateness. While BMW as of now has the innovation, he clarified, there are still a ton of inquiries to be addressed and wrinkles to resolve.
"In 2011, a BMW drove on the A9 expressway from Munich towards Nuremberg – with no driver mediation," he told the gathering of people. "It will be a while before these autos achieve arrangement development – likewise in light of the fact that the best possible legitimate structure for clients and producers has not yet been chosen."
