Green car will no longer be an oxymoron if BMW’s word is anything to go by. At the moment, reserach is on to make the same a reality. But the wait is a little long as the Bavarian car will not be seen in the market until 2012.

Based on the M1 Homage concept, the green car will be wedge-shaped holding a 3.0-liter inline six cylinder engine that will in turn be injected to move along with its twin turbochargers. Apparently, a version of the same engine is already powering other models from BMW ending in 35i with 300-horsepower being put out. The new version will definitely go a step or two ahead.

Sources reveal that Efficient Dynamics will be adding stop/start, regenerative braking and most probably even a road-going version of the Kinetic Energy Recovery System which by the way is being worked on for Formula 1 use next year.

Fuel economy, emissions and carbon output of the concept car is expected to be similar to their 5 Series midsize sedan.

Via autobloggreen & autoblog