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Originally Posted by darylp310
Lucid Gravity has that clever onboard charger technology -- they use the rear motor to step up the voltage -- so they can charge their 800V car even faster than a 800V Cybertruck on Tesla's own 400V dispensers!! That would be amazing if BMW did the same.
But my guess is that for the iX3 they won't do it because it adds cost, and the iX3 is not supposed to be a $100K+ luxury car.
I'm trying hard to temper expectations, because I love all the technology I'm reading about in the Neue Klasse iX3, but I have remind myself that's not going to be in the same class luxury-wise as a 5 series, 7 series, or an iX.
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I watched one of the bmw blog videos about the iX3 charging and they stated that the iX3 charging on a 400V charger would be similar to what the iX has today (i.e. +/- 200kW peak).
That video showed the bottom end of the charging curve of the iX3 and the chunky part of the charge curve is really nice and is at around 400kW for a while. If you have a bunch of really fast chargers along your route, you can hop chargers at the bottom end of the SoC curve and road trip long distances very fast; dare I say better than just about every other EV out there.