I love the idea!!!! Having the cash to afford it is another thing entirely.

 

I agree entirely with dlevi67. This car has a limited life and if it will ever be possible to change the batteries probably they will cost 90% of the new car or so. I mean look at the big UPS like 10KV, they use nichel based batteries and have limited life depending mostly on ambient temperature, and when the batteries are gone and need replacing in most cases your better off with a new UPS.

Reading what loworbit wrote i must admit i thought the same way about bmw, being late on tech with the hybrids and so. It may very well be so since bmw has yet to introduce a hybrid where others like toyota have been doing it like for 10 years or so when everybody in the auto industry laughed at the ideea. Now car manufacturers strive to get hybrids on the market asap. BMW takes its time it seems, but hey then i realised BMW had no real strategy with the hybrids. The way i see it, hybrids are just a middlestep to the new era of automotive alternative energies. They still do depend on gas, and BMW saw it right and focused on something trully important and feasible for the future. Hydrogen cells !

So in a way probably BMW took all the time in R&D for a proper solution when all the petrol goes extinct. Electric cars will probably not be so good, regardless of how much the technology improves youțll still get stuck to a limited low mileage before the car needs a (fillup) and good luck with traveling long thousands of miles journeys, will still have poor performance cuz we have seen good performance on striped, lightweight cars but put those powerplants on an SUV and you get another result, and will not be so eco friendly after all cuz the current needed is still coming from atomic powerplants, thermo, coal based, or other major power supplier.

In a way BMW did what Toyota has done only it did not think only on the next step it jumped two steps ahead to the real deal. Even though Hydrogen cars are useless today and many more years will be needed (maybe 10-15 years more) because there are virtually no Hydrogen filling stations, the step is in the right dirrection. Those are really brake through technologies, that are almost free to deliver and the exhaust being composed of H2O, not the jibbery jab Lexus has done strapping a few batteries on a gas engine.

And yes BMW imho will not loose so much, you will see how many BMW X6 Active Hybrids will be sold despite the volume of sales Toyota and Honda achieved so far.