ev.news · Oct 14, 2026 · 24:54
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BMW’s greatest modern engineering achievement may not be any of its electric cars, but the decision to stop developing them as separate projects, on shared platforms with outdated combustion tech.
BMW spent years developing electric cars model by model. But Neue Klasse represents something far more ambitious: an entirely new way of engineering its future.
Neue Klasse is not a single platform underpinning every future BMW. It's a dedicated EV architecture that also introduces a new generation of technologies.
So why has BMW been able to do what many of their competitors struggled with?
This is ev.news Tech, with Martyn Lee.
BMW calls its new generation Neue Klasse. What matters is not how many cars carry the name, but how far the engineering can travel.