BMW i4

Electric vehicle (EV) pioneer BMW is jumping back into the fast lane with its Tesla-rivalling i4 four-door 'coupe', which will hit the market in 2021. To build anticipation, the Munich marque staged a digital reveal - in lieu of the cancelled Geneva motor show - of a near-production-ready Concept i4 tonight. The headline figures are a 0-100km/h time as low as 4.0 seconds, a 200km/h top speed, and a claimed (WLTP) maximum driving range between charges of 600km.

Photographers have snapped images of the upcoming BMW i4 electric vehicle with as thin a disguise as ever, ahead of a likely debut in late 2020 or early 2021. Here we can see the production headlight units and LED daytime-running light signature, which really is no surprise given the close family ties with the latest 3 Series and upcoming 4 Series range.

The upcoming BMW i4 sedan has been snapped testing on the streets of Munich, wearing a silhouette not dissimilar to that of the 4 Series Gran Coupe. Built on the BMW CLAR architecture, the four-door coupe will lob with a driving range of 600km on the tricky WLTP drive cycle. Impressive. It'll hit 100km/h in 4.0 seconds, and keep pulling beyond 200km/h. Production will start in 2021 at BMW's factory in Munich. As for how we know all this? Well, the company has told us. Makes life easy, right?

A concept of the BMW i4 is expected to be unveiled at next week's Los Angeles auto show. The German manufacturer last night confirmed it would reveal a new concept from its fledgling 'BMW i' plug-in family in LA on November 28 to join the i3 electric city car and i8 hybrid sports car (pictured below). While BMW has given few hints, the show car is widely tipped to be the i4 concept, which is rumoured to be a compact sports coupe based on the i3.