- BMW’s next-gen consumer interface has no buttons, knobs, or bodily controls
- Dubbed Panoramic iDrive, the system makes use of a touchscreen, projection, and the steering wheel
- Panoramic iDrive will debut later in 2025 within the Neue Klasse EVs
BMW’s upcoming electrical automobile will not simply debut the automaker’s new design language and platform. It will additionally convey forth the automaker’s next-generation infotainment system and consumer interface.
On Tuesday, in Las Vegas at 2025 CES, BMW debuted its Panoramic iDrive and Working System X. The brand new interface consists of 4 elements, one in every of which is non-obligatory. All 4 will emerge later within the 12 months with the introduction of the Neue Klasse EV.
BMW Panoramic iDrive
The Panoramic iDrive system does away with buttons and knobs. A easy dashboard adopts a rhombus-shaped touchscreen that hosts most car controls starting from navigation and infotainment to local weather controls.
BMW Panoramic iDrive
The touchscreen’s augmented by pillar-to-pillar black floor on the base of the windshield. The complete floor is used to venture data seen to all occupants, in line with BMW, and takes the place of the gauge cluster. Data that’s displayed on the black panel might be configured by the motive force with as much as six widgets directly. The show might be modified based mostly on drive mode and customised with settings together with backgrounds related to profiles.
BMW Panoramic iDrive
The brand new six-sided steering wheel has a flat high and backside. It is the principle controller contained in the car and has 12 inputs on the proper, together with four-point arrows, and 7 inputs on the left for driver help and car data capabilities. The buttons change capabilities based mostly on the duty at hand with numerous illumination patterns, and supply haptic suggestions.
A brand new 3D head-up show (HUD) is the fourth piece of {hardware}, and will probably be an choice. The HUD shows navigation and automatic driving data for the driver-assist methods.
BMW Panoramic iDrive
All these methods run on BMW’s new Working System X software program, which was designed and developed in-house utilizing an Android software program stack. The brand new working system is claimed to endow the car with future upgradability and backwards compatibility. BMW mentioned integration of third-party apps from in the present day’s iDrive 9 is seamless with over 60 apps worldwide within the BMW ConnectedDrive Retailer.
Working System X, mixed with Panoramic Imaginative and prescient and the non-obligatory 3D head-up show, all tie into BMW’s Clever Private Assistant and voice management system. It’s going to reply by way of a immediate of, “Hey BMW,” or by urgent a button on the steering wheel. Pure language fashions have been utilized with the power to say, “Take me to a charging station which is near a meals retailer,” and the navigation system will reply accordingly, BMW says.
The brand new interfaces shall be packaged in BMW’s next-gen autos—the Neue Klasse household of electrical SUVs and sedans.