BMW Efficient Dynamics?

Technological innovation to reduce consumption comprises engine auto stop/start functions, brake energy regeneration, electric power steering, aerodynamic airflap control, gear shift indicators and low rolling resistance tyres. All this is in addition to actual engine combustion optimisation for efficient fuel use. As this technology is rolled out across new or updated BMW products, there is an immediate benefit to the environment, rather than a narrow focus impact limited to one or two specific models. BMW believes this is the way to deliver a meaningful environment result. Particular success has been achieved with diesel vehicles already available in Australia.

In Europe, around 40 percent of BMW Group sales are equipped with EfficientDynamics technology and register CO2 emissions below the 140 g/km benchmark. In the medium term BMW plans to introduce BMW ActiveHybrid technology, which boosts conventional engines using electric motors, delivering typical BMW driving excitement, but using as much as 20 percent less fuel, and thus cutting emissions by a similar amount. BMW ActiveHybrid is a modular system that can be adapted to suit a variety of BMW vehicles without diluting their different characters. The key components are: an internal combustion engine, a transmission unit featuring one or two electric motors, batteries, power electronics and the electronic control system.