BMW USA has shared preliminary particulars of its 2025 mannequin 12 months i4 EV forward of the all-electric sedan’s official launch this summer season. Updates embrace a redesigned entrance fascia (all hail the kidney!), new exterior colours, and a digitized inside with sportier textiles.
The BMW i4 debuted as a 2022 model-year sedan, which we at Electrek have had the prospect to check out a number of occasions (with principally good issues to say about it). It’s not the flashiest or strongest of the BMW “i” line of BEVs and has been up to date with decrease specs to make it one of many German automaker’s most reasonably priced fashions.
In truth, the model of the i4 earlier than at present’s incoming 2025 mannequin is BMW’s most reasonably priced EV lease possibility. Final summer season, we noticed BMW introduce a brand new variant of the 2024 i4 referred to as xDrive40, positioned between the dual-motor i4 M50 and the single-motor i4 eDrive40.
Immediately, BMW USA has begun teasing its 2025 i4 fashions, together with a redesigned M50 xDrive.
BMW shares new 2025 i4 particulars, simply no pricing but
Per BMW USA, the 2025 mannequin 12 months variations of the i4 BEVs have obtained beauty updates inside and outside. The German automaker states the sedan’s slim headlights and vertical kidney grille have been refreshed. The previous sees adaptive single LED modules that generate a “Welcome Gentle” animation when the drive will get inside ten ft.
The latter good points a brand new matte chrome end and its higher part has been absolutely enclosed to additional showcase its high-gloss black end (seen above). The M Sport bundle of the 2025 BMW i4 now additionally features a decrease diffuser within the rear bumper, completed in high-gloss black to match its air intakes on the entrance fascia. These components have been Cerium Gray in earlier i4 fashions.
New exterior colours have been added as configurable choices, together with Cape York Inexperienced metallic and Vegas Crimson metallic. Future 2025 BMW i4 clients will even have the ability to choose from a number of new alloy wheel choices, together with 19-inch M Aero bi-color wheels obtainable within the M Sport bundle.
Contained in the 2025 i4, BMW mentioned it targeted on offering digitalization and “a sharper sporting profile.” A brand new QuickSelect characteristic in iDrive reduces the variety of bodily buttons within the cockpit, and extra options will be activated through contact on the sedan’s heart show, together with local weather management and seat/steering wheel heating. Listed here are some extra deets, per the discharge:
The brand new BMW i4 and new BMW 4 Sequence Gran Coupe are fitted as customary with sport seats in perforated Sensatec. Vernasca leather-based trim with ornamental quilting is accessible in 5 colours, together with the brand new bi-color Black with Crimson Spotlight.
2025 BMW i4s and new BMW 4 Sequence Gran Coupes come customary with a two-spoke steering wheel with polygonal rim and illuminated multifunction buttons. Including the M Sport Package deal now brings an M leather-based steering wheel in a three-spoke design with a flat-bottomed rim and a black heart stripe marking the 12 o’clock place. The three-spoke M leather-based steering wheel customary on the i4 M50 xDrive and M440i fashions moreover options M tricolor stitching and a crimson stripe at high lifeless heart.
The brand new EVs will arrive powered by BMW Working System 8.5, which can allow up to date cloud-based BMW Maps navigation and extra holistic entry to the My BMW App. Two components BMW’s press launch lacks are any point out of upgrades to the 2025 i4’s efficiency and what its variants will price after they launch.
The automaker says pricing will probably be introduced quickly, forward of the official launch of the 2025 i4 in July 2024. The BEVs proceed to be constructed close to BMW’s headquarters in Munich, Germany. Right here’s a have a look at the European model of the i4 whereas we await extra particulars.
