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Now the race to small car, possibly electric or hybrid, has become a must for all manufacturers to grips with the increasingly stringent European and U.S. CO2 emissions at the range. Even if they are months, almost years, that well-informed people know that in the basement of Monaco there are already prepared several prototypes of this little BMW to test the combination electric or internal combustion more efficient, at official level had never been admitted nothing about it and as regards the summits of the House the only study concrete piccolina propelled electricity remained the concept E1 of 1991.

But the time entries corridor is finally finished with a recent and unequivocal statement by Norbert Reithofer to German weekly Die Zeit: “It will be a machine with a completely new look, with two engines available. One of the two engines will be internal combustion, but very efficient and another will be purely electric.