Creating environmental protection with circulation regeneration – powerful, BMW i cycle concept car

In the last period of time, there has been a major meteorological disaster incident in the Americas, Europe and Asia, which can be said that everyone on the earth can feel the climate abnormalities in recent years. As one of the counterparts, my country has promised to achieve “carbon peak” in 2030, reaching “carbon neutrality” in 2060. Prior to this, BMW Group has established “I Project” as early as 2007, issued “BMW I” brand in 2011. It is not only just a brand of pure electric vehicles, but is from all aspects of the chain of the car – including the recovery and reuse of the material, introducing green concept into full value chain, full life cycle. On September 6, BMW Group reached a new milestone on the road of sustainable development. On the 2021 German International Automobile and Smart Travel Expo (IAA), the BMW Group forward-looking prospective prospects for circular economy and sustainable travel, and brought the world’s first BMW I Vision Circular.

Since named BMW i cycle (love loop) concept car, naturally use the reuse material in product design, and achieve the sustainable process of recovery process through intelligent digitization sex. The vehicle uses a single material as much as possible, and simply disassembled to avoid bonding or composite. BMW Group creates a smart design of “Joyful Fusion to ensure the convenience of dismantling. Use only one sleeve wrench to easily dismantle the hub, seat and dashboard to each component. The dismantling process is made by artificial intelligence, based on digital vehicle archives – digital twins, all installation materials on the car are clearly recorded. Each component is easily identified to enable it to enter the corresponding material cycle process to ensure that the vehicle “can sustain”, give the user luxury, sustainable intelligent travel experience.

BMW I cycle concept car is thinking about the future of the car in a new perspective, using “thinking, refined, reuse, and recover” The principle is designed to completely abandon the car paint, leather and chromium, and introduce bio-based raw materials to reduce the environmental impact and reduce carbon footprint. The front of the head streamlines the use of the material, no chrome plated, no border, no traditional columnThe classic design, and the classic diced kidney grille is displayed through the form of artistic beauty.

The side surface of the body extends to the digital decorative strip of the Hofshock corner, which can display the vehicle status, and the user is close to the light . The car body is used to use aluminum material, and the anodized treatment is shallow gold to avoid the use of the car paint. The blue rubber employed by the tire is made of certified sustainable natural rubber, and color regenerated rubber particles are added to create an interesting water mill effect. The design of the hub is very conforming to the principle of refining, the hollow center and the closed peripheral surface can ensure the overall aerodynamics performance while cooling the brake disc. Like I3, the BMW I cycle concept car is integrated on the tail, and the taillight information is presented in the form of a new digital animation. When the vehicle stops, the glass surface is only clearly visible, and all functional lighting elements after the vehicle are turned on, and the line patterns on the front face will be activated accordingly.

One of the concepts of environmental protection and regeneration, the first words that have emerged in the mind are simple. But the interiors of the BMW I loop concept car can be described without excessive. The surface of the four separate seats in the car is made of re-use plastic, providing a texture similar to velvet. The seat border is made of light gold aluminum, and the entire seat is “Yue” through a rope, so that the metal and the fabric can be easily separated, respectively. The single-pillar base is used below the seat, which can be moved before, which further increases the leg space of the passenger’s passenger. The most interesting is a reading lamp hidden on the C column in the car, from the iDrive knob recovered on the BMW IX. However, the most eye-catching on the BMW I cycle concept is the car is like a sculptural dashboard – is considered a new generation of “digital entity” user interface. It can be projected in the car in the form of floating V-type sculptures and is extremely impact. The intermediate portion of the instrument panel consists of 3D printing crystals, such as neurons, increases the visual depth while adding the user, making the “thinking stream” of the vehicle clearly visible.

BMW Group Chairman Qi Pu said: “BMW i cycle concept car shows BMW Group The comprehensive and meticulous thinking of sustainable travel represents our efforts in the circular economy. The efficiency of the BMW Group’s use of resources is very high, we hope to extend this advantage to various stages of the product life cycle. This will not only contribute to the protection environment, but also protect the company’s future long-term development. The model of the new generation ‘will take a big step in sustainable development; today’s concept car is not right.’ The new generation ‘model, but its sustainable and loop concept will be able to run through it. “

With the debut of the BMW I cycle concept car, the BMW Group proposed the four guiding principles based on circular economy based on circular economy, and recycled the company’s future development routes and even the development direction of the automotive industry. A new thinking is proposed.