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now you can buy a BMW and feel environmentally responsible 2013 activehybrid 3 uses BMWs 3 litre straight-six engine which has direct injection in a twin-scroll turbocharger that's the same engine that they use in the 335i but then they add a 55 horsepower electric motor which is integrated into the transmission and then lithium-ion battery pack bMW says the whole thing should get about 37 miles per gallon one really cool feature in this car is called the intelligent energy management now this allows you to put a destination in the navigation system and the car will look at the route ahead and adjust its drive dynamics accordingly so for example if there's a big down slope ahead the car might use up a lot of its battery energy to propel the car because it knows it's going to be able to recharge that energy on the way down the hill at the head BMW package that lithium ion battery pack in this car below the trunk load floor so there's plenty of room here with no intrusion and you can also get a clear pass through to the back seat so plenty of load room straight through the BMW activehybrid 3 goes on sale this fall I'm Wayne Cunningham reporting from Detroit