Video Summary
Here is the summary of the electric car review:The review focuses on a long journey test of the BMW i5 Touring XDrive 40.
The reviewer travels to various locations, noting charging stops, and tests real-world consumption. Planned travel to the mountains was cancelled and he had to deliver his Audi.
There's a long reportage about the Circle K station, noting 20 stations for cars and another 6 for trucks. The reviewer has come to this station with 65% of his batter, and after one hour, the battery power is up to 99%.
The interior is spacious and comfortable, has nice seats.
With the BMW app it is impossible to plan the route in the car from a smart phone. The planned charge points are also incorrect.
He notes it can’t plan a route with charge stops. The map had a warning that a planned station was out of order. When trying to make changes to the GPS map it would return to the previous home screen.
The car has 20-inch tires making them quieter than his other car.
The windshield wipers were considered fully worthless.
Turning on or off of the adaptive cruise controls was all done in the main screen of the car and not on the wheel.
Real-world consumption on this trip was 210-Watt hours per kilometer, equivalent to 2.1 kWh per mile.The cost for the charging station at that time was 7 SEK/kWh. He did the charging from 14% to 80%, which took about 36 minutes, and cost about 221 SEK.
This i5 Touring offers 394 horsepower. Starting price is approximately 749,000 SEK, but is really around 850,000 SEK with options.The 2-wheel drive version was able to tow about 1500 kg of weight, whereas the XDrive 40 can tow about 2000 kg.
He considers this electric car to be comfortable. The sound is reduced. And the steering wheel assisted well.
There were 6 charging spots, making charging available for all.
To make the steering wheel stop making a noise, and take it off boost, requires three minutes for the noise and a trip to another menu for turning off the boost.
