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A 320-mile road trip to Ohio in a BMW iX xDrive40 reminded Axios reporter Joann Muller of something the growing charger count doesn’t fix: actually using a public fast charger in 2026 is still a test of patience, physical stamina, and app tolerance. Her report, published April 8, is a useful reality check on where…
BMW officially reveals the i3 sedan: the Neue Klasse flagship with a 560-mile (WLTP) range, 400 kW ultra-fast charging, and 463 hp. Discover the tech behind the 800V architecture, V2L capabilities, and why this EV is Tesla's biggest threat for 2027.
The numbers from Munich tell a clear story. BMW reported full-year 2025 EBIT of €10.2 billion — its lowest since the Covid pandemic — as China sales fell more than 12% and trade tariffs shaved 1.5 percentage points off its automotive margin. For a group that promised an 8–10% margin corridor, landing at 5.3% is…
The single most telling number from Scout Motors’ reservation update isn’t 160,000. It’s 87%. That’s the share of reservation holders who chose the 500-mile extended-range version of the Scout Traveler SUV and Scout Terra pickup over the pure battery-electric option. For a brand launching in 2027 with the explicit goal of winning over American truck…
A door that won’t open in a crash isn’t a design quirk. It’s a death trap. China’s government just codified that reality into law, and the ripple effects will hit EV design studios from Munich to Fremont. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published rules banning concealed, electrically operated door handles on vehicles sold…
After spending a decade covering the EV market, one stat in a new 61-page Fraunhofer Institute study stopped me cold: the average Porsche PHEV driver charged their battery to less than 50% capacity exactly once over two years. That’s 7 kilowatt-hours total. You’d use more electricity running a space heater for an afternoon. The study,…
The 400-kilometer range threshold that European fleet drivers say they need before switching to electric? BMW’s newest models just happen to clear it. That timing is worth examining. A new survey of 655 Dutch company car drivers, commissioned by BMW and conducted by research firm Kien Onderzoek, found that 60% would choose an EV to…
The camouflaged sedan sitting on BMW’s Munich assembly line today looks like any other pre-production test mule. But this particular car carries the weight of BMW’s entire electric future on its shoulders. The new BMW i3, built on the Neue Klasse platform’s 800-volt architecture, is the electric successor to the 3 Series, a nameplate that…
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