BMW is ending manufacturing of the i8 sports activities automobile, six years after its introduction.

The i8 was BMW's first plug-in hybrid. The manufacturing model of the i8 was unveiled on the 2013 Frankfurt auto present and it went on sale in the US in 2014.

BMW freshened the i8 coupe and launched a roadster model in 2018.

U.S. gross sales of the automobile rose 43 % to 1,102 final yr.

As BMW closes the chapter on the i8, the automaker is making ready to launch a number of battery-powered fashions as a part of formidable plans to market 25 electrified fashions by 2023.

Manufacturing of the iNext crossover will start in the midst of 2021. That shall be adopted by the beginning of i4 sedan output towards the top of 2021.

Plans to convey an electrical crossover, the iX3, to the U.S. subsequent yr have been scrapped for now.

The i4 and iNext have a variety of greater than 370 miles, in contrast with the iX3's 273-mile vary, primarily based on the European check cycle.