BMW The 2025 BMW M5, available for the first time in plug-in hybrid (PHEV) form, will be a Husky. The sedan features an electric motor and a 4.4-liter V8 engine and will weigh 5,390 pounds when it launches in the fourth quarter of 2024.
That makes the new M5 about 1,000 pounds heavier than the previous 2023 model. It also weighs more than trucks like the 2022 Chevrolet Tahoe (5,356 pounds), 2024 Lucid Air Sapphire (5,336 pounds), and 2024 Land Rover Range Rover Sport (5,090 pounds), Engine 1 Noticed today. Unlike Lucid’s electric cars, though, the M5 can’t blame its weight on the battery, which is only large enough to travel 25 miles without using gasoline.
If you purchase BMW’s M Driving Package, the new M5 PHEV can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds and reach a top speed of 190 mph on gasoline power. Using only the electric motor, it can travel at speeds of approximately 87 mph. By default, the car operates in hybrid mode, using both the internal combustion engine and electric power, with the ratio of each mode’s output depending on how the driver configures the car in the M settings menu. BMW says that when the battery gets low, the engine will start pumping out more power to recharge it.
M project chief Franciscus Van Meel recently said that future BMW M electric cars will use the company’s own in-house developed batteries and electric motors. road & rail.
The platform includes a new system for detecting and forwarding sensor data to the car’s central computer, the development of which Division M was involved in. Van Meer said that BMW’s electric cars are equipped with this system called “Joy Heart”, which will react to situations such as wheel slippage or brake locking “ten times faster than before”, while stability control, traction control and Overall performance has also been enhanced.
