This past Friday was a momentous day for Charles Rabie from Boston, as he became the first to take delivery of a US-bound BMW i3. A professor at Tufts University, Rabie was previously part of BMW’s ActivE program, so his car is one of the special Electronaut edition vehicles specially reserved who took part in the program (some 700 households in total).
All will come with a selection of extra toys and features as standard, like heated front seats, unique badging, custom license plate frames and unique floor mats among others that would have cost the owner $1,750 had they been specified separately; the Electronaut edition gets them free of charge.
Autoblog Green has additional information to add. Upon speaking with a representative of BMW’s Corporate Communications department, Dave Buchko, they learnt what the yet-unreleased EPA efficiency numbers for the i3 are: quoted range is 81 miles, and it can do 138 MPGe (equivalent) in the city, 111 MPGe on the highway, for an average of 124 MPGe combined. The range extender model may prove to be the more popular choice…
By Andrei Nedelea
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