For the past three years, Ford Motor Company has taken home the International Engine of the Year award from Engine Technology International with its superior 1.0-liter EcoBoost platform, but that’s changed for 2015. This year, BMW scooped up the award for the 1.5-liter gasoline-hybrid powertrain found in the BMW i8 vehicle platform.

Not only did this engine win the overall award, two others went home with the boys from Munich; New Engine, for the most important engine development in the last 12 months, and also the win for the 1.4 to 1.8-liter category.

The TwinPower turbo 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine produces 231 horsepower; when paired with the 129 horsepower electric motor that drives the front wheels, total power output is claimed at 357 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque. As the electric motor drives the car for up to 22 miles of gasoline-free enjoyment, the 76 MPGe rating of the i8’s powerplant(s) provides excellent fuel economy to go along with the stellar claimed 4.2-second 0-60 time.

In eDrive mode, as long as there’s enough juice–and the owner doesn’t demand more power with the right foot–the i8’s 1.5-liter turbo, direct-injection powerplant never comes online; the electric plug-in motor makes doing right by the environment feel good. Once the electric power is depleted, the gasoline engine comes online to help the i8 operate in hybrid mode, and recharges the battery in the process. Alternatively, it can be plugged into a 240-volt source and recharged in as little as 1.5 hours.

BMW also won the magazine’s 2.5 to 3.0-liter category with the 3.0-liter twin-turbo six-cylinder engine from the M3/M4.

Other winners at the event included Ford, with the aforementioned 999cc EcoBoost taking the Sub 1-liter category, Mercedes winning the 1.8-liter to 2.0-liter class with the A45/CLA45/GLA45 2.0-liter turbo engine, and Ferrari’s Performance Engine and Above 4-liter wins with the 4.5-liter engine from the 458 Italia and 458 Speciale.