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Originally Posted by red-sauerkraut
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Originally Posted by 35mphgolf
mucho thanko. Super excited for this ....except where are they getting this double the range business? BMW themselves said 114 on the BEV - not 195 (which sounds like a Rex figure)
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BEV will get 125 miles city. |
Nope, BEV goes from 81 miles to 114 miles in US, up by 40.7%.
In the UK, BMW UK gets away with advertising that the same car gets 125 miles, based on looser British testing standards. Same car, same batteries, different advertised ranges.
The reason +50% battery capacity expansion gets you only +40.7% range gain is that the new batteries are heavier. That also propagates to longer 0-60mph times for the new ar.
Old REX had total range of 150 miles (in the US), roughly 75 miles each from battery and the engine. If you extrapolate similar battery range increase of 40.7%, you are up to 105 miles on REX battery + 75 on engine = ~180 miles in total.
Brits get away with claiming 195 mile range for the reasons stated above.
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