Driving expertise in a category of its personal: BMW Imaginative and prescient Driving Expertise shines in Shanghai with spectacular manoeuvres and gleaming paintwork.
21.04.2025 Press Launch
+++ Two days earlier than the world’s largest motor present, BMW demonstrates driving manoeuvres with the high-performance take a look at automobile BMW Imaginative and prescient Driving Expertise +++ Lightning-fast Coronary heart of Pleasure central pc takes the driving dynamics of future BMW fashions to a brand new stage +++ Munich/Shanghai.
Munich/Shanghai. Driving dynamics on the limits of physics: On the world’s largest motor present in Shanghai, BMW presents the BMW Imaginative and prescient Driving Expertise, a driving expertise of the very best order. Developed on the idea of the BMW Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse, the high-performance take a look at automobile can be unveiled to the general public for the primary time at Auto Shanghai 2025.
Inside, the lightning-fast Coronary heart of Pleasure management pc, which works at the side of the BMW Dynamic Efficiency Management software program stack to centrally calculate all driving dynamics capabilities, is seen within the centre console of the BMW Imaginative and prescient Driving Expertise in Shanghai – in contrast to later in collection manufacturing.
The BMW Imaginative and prescient Driving Expertise has been specifically designed to problem the Coronary heart of Pleasure on the limits of driving physics.
Take a look at drivers Jens Klingmann and Elias Houndtonji, the primary attraction of the BMW Model Evening, display the extraordinary potential of the automotive with spectacular driving manoeuvres. BMW presents the present’s imaginative and prescient automobile in a particular luminescent paint.
This night in Shanghai, BMW Group introduced essentially the most highly effective prototype BMW has ever constructed. With as much as 18,000 Nm of torque, the BMW Imaginative and prescient Driving Expertise demonstrated Pleasure of Driving in its final kind. Geared up with our new tremendous mind Coronary heart of Pleasure, the VDX is changing the final word electrical energy into managed driving pleasure – no marvel weve skilled overwhelming suggestions from the viewers stated Jochen Goller, member of the Board of Administration of BMW AG, accountable for Clients, Manufacturers and Gross sales.
The primary all-electric Neue Klasse automobiles will roll off the manufacturing line on the Debrecen plant in Hungary from the top of the 12 months. The Coronary heart of Pleasure central pc, which ensures a brand new stage of precision and driving dynamics, can be fitted as normal in each Neue Klasse automobile.
The last word endurance take a look at for the subsequent era of drive and driving dynamics management.
With the visionary BMW Imaginative and prescient Driving Expertise take a look at automobile, BMW is pushing the boundaries of acquainted driving dynamics. With a torque of as much as 18,000 Newton metres, the “quickest take a look at rig on this planet” is the final word endurance take a look at for the Coronary heart of Pleasure and BMW Dynamic Efficiency Management developed completely by BMW. Due to lively aerodynamics, the “driving machine” develops a downforce as much as of 1.2 tonnes and lateral forces of as much as 3g – a dimension on a par with Components 1 and much past the necessities of typical automobiles in street visitors. The logic behind this: If the {hardware} and software program can tame the brute forces of this take a look at rig, they’ll simply deal with the calls for of on a regular basis use.
Within the new useful structure of the Neue Klasse, the Coronary heart of Pleasure is the central pc accountable for driving, braking, recharging by way of recuperation and a few steering capabilities. With quick data processing and direct management of the electrical motors, the Coronary heart of Pleasure not solely achieves a brand new stage of agility and driving stability with fewer system interventions, but additionally permits 98 per cent of braking operations to be carried out utilizing brake power regeneration. This represents a 25% enhance in effectivity in comparison with immediately’s architectures. The automobile may also be delivered to a standstill extra easily than ever earlier than.
Revolutionary, fluorescent paint for the present in Shanghai.
Though the BMW Imaginative and prescient Driving Expertise was designed for improvement functions solely and isn’t supposed for collection manufacturing, its exterior relies on the design language of the BMW Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse. The monolithic-looking physique, highly effective wheel arches, recessed greenhouse and “shark nostril” entrance finish are all a part of the purist aesthetic that can even characterise the Neue Klasse. A brand new interpretation of the attribute BMW radiator grille and twin headlights creates a putting, three-dimensional gentle signature on the entrance.
For the presentation in Shanghai, the BMW Imaginative and prescient Driving Expertise, which had beforehand been lined in camouflage movie and proven at a preview within the USA, was given an revolutionary, self-illuminating paint end. The paint’s particular light-sensitive pigments recharge in daylight, with even the smallest quantity of ambient gentle adequate. At the hours of darkness, the color varies from a whitish yellow to an expressive neon yellow, relying on the state of cost. As well as, the rear of the automotive has been fitted with a “magic movie” which, when stimulated by UV gentle, creates an expressive gradient from yellow to orange to pink from the rear to the entrance of the automotive. These particular seems underline the individuality and revolutionary energy of the automotive.