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WHY IT’S HERE
This is BMW’s techno flagship, what’s it like to live with?
DRIVER
Jason Barlow
BMW CEO OLIVER ZIPSE RECENTLY TOLD ME THERE IS NO SUCH THING as a future-oriented design without controversy. True and, personally, I like seeing this car cut a swathe through a sea of grey conformity on the M25. That’s the subjective bit. Objectively, there’s no question that the xDrive 50’s 105.2kWh battery pretty much erases range anxiety. The best I saw on a full charge, in the height of 2022’s sticky summer, was 360 miles, although that’s dropped to 288 now it’s cold. It’s also impressively efficient for a big machine: I averaged between 2.9 and 3.2mpkWh, pretty much bang on BMW’s claims. On my 7kW home charger, it took 14 or 15 hours to replenish; a decent top-up is about 50 minutes on a 100kW rapid charger.