BMW has previewed an intensive new electrical SUV due in 2026 as some of the company’s dramatically styled Neue Klasse EVs.

Proven in short in a presentation on the unveiling of the dramatic BMW Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse thought, the brand new SUV – one in all a number of in BMW’s new-era line-up – will probably be a BMW iX3-sized crossover to rival the approaching Audi Q6 E-tron and Mercedes EQC SUV.

The Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse which units the tone for this new line of SUVs is a low-slung saloon, however the company stays firmly dedicated to the SUV phase one day, suggesting electrical replacements for the preferred X3, X5, X6 and X7 are at the playing cards. BMW boss Oliver Zipse has already showed that BMW could have “six Neue Klasse fashions in 24 months [from 2025]. From SUV to sedan, we will be able to have one thing for each buyer”. 

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Design leader Domagog Dukec informed Autocar in the past: “The 3-box is one thing we strongly imagine in, and within the Neue Klasse there will probably be some merchandise [like this]. However in fact we additionally do SUVs, and there’s a want for SUVs one day.” 

The company has already showed that the primary Neue Klasse style will probably be a BMW 3 Collection-sized saloon, closely modelled at the new thought automotive, and the second one will probably be a carefully comparable SUV – lining it up in its place for these days’s iX3. 

Whilst the saloon is claimed to be 20% extra environment friendly general than its closest predecessor, the SUV will spice up that to twenty-five% – suggesting a spread of round 360 miles, in comparison to the iX3’s 286.

With the ability to rate at 270kW, in the meantime, will be certain that it competes successfully with its in a similar fashion progressive German competitors, and BMW’s slimmer next-gen batteries will have to make for a cabin that’s tangibly roomier than the ICE platform-based iX3’s. 

Within, it is going to use the extremely complex 9th technology of BMW’s iDrive infotainment – entire with panoramic head-up show, gesture-controlled interfaces and voice regulate – whilst majoring on sustainability, house and offering a ‘heat’ and ‘acquainted’ atmosphere, virtually unrecognisable from that of BMW’s present EVs.