Hooked up on the backside of the web page, the livestream begins March 21, at 9 AM CET / 10 AM GMT / 4 AM ET / 1 AM PT.

After a prolonged teaser marketing campaign interrupted by official pictures that have been printed means forward of time, the Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse X is lastly prepared for prime time. The BMW Group Annual Convention 2024 will embrace speeches from CEO Oliver Zipse and CFO Walter Mertl, however the occasion goes to largely revolve across the electrical SUV. The Munich automaker has arrange a livestream for the debut occasion, permitting all of us to observe the reveal because it occurs in real-time.

The Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse X is greater than only a window into the way forward for the subsequent technology iX3 coming 2025. It kick-starts an electrical revolution with not less than six EVs coming by 2028, a contemporary design language, and a revamped inside with iDrive 10 and the Panoramic Imaginative and prescient head-up show. Most significantly, BMW’s first devoted electrical platform is lastly coming. It’ll usher in Gen6 batteries with spherical cells bringing enchancment on a number of fronts: elevated power density, longer vary, sooner charging, and decrease manufacturing prices.

Within the lead-up to the Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse sedan’s premiere final September on the IAA Mobility present, BMW stated the all-new structure represents the “largest funding the corporate has ever made.” It’s “altering the guts” of the model, with Head of BMW Group Design, Adrian van Hooydonk, going so far as to say “BMW shall be a distinct model” in 2025 when the next-gen iX3 is scheduled to return out.

We’ll have to attend and see whether or not the Imaginative and prescient Neue Klasse X idea’s reveal shall be simply concerning the idea itself or whether or not we’ll additionally study extra concerning the platform underpinning it and what it means for the way forward for EVs. When the sedan was launched in 2023, BMW was tight-lipped concerning the technical specs, so we’re not holding our breath for juicy particulars concerning the {hardware} beneath the SUV.

Even when we gained’t study concerning the specs in the course of the idea’s debut occasion, the design alone will make the livestream price watching since that visible DNA shall be adopted by the iX3 in 2025. Come 2026, an i3 sedan will go on sale, and likelihood is there may also be an i3 Touring and an iX4 not lengthy after.

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