Figure 2.8 Lotus’s Low Mass Vehicle Project [24]
Another well-known automobile maker BMW is planning to bring the low mass vehicle to the world in 2013 too. The Figure 2.9 showed below is the BMW-I concept hybrid vehicle which is weighted 1250 kg and has a drag coefficient equal to 0.22. By combining with the hybrid system, it results in 62.56 MPH that is much higher than Toyota Pirus. It has two versions that the I8 is a sport car and the I3 is a crossover as shown in Figure 2.10.
