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This BMW i3 Drove 3,658 Miles. It Needed Less Than 3 Hours Of Charging

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This BMW i3 Drove 3,658 Miles. It Needed Less Than 3 Hours Of Charging

Quiet, smooth, and punchy, electric cars make fantastic road trippers. The daunting part is how much time charging adds to a journey—especially a long one. But in the latest EVs, that's becoming less and less of a concern, as BMW demonstrated with a nearly 4,000-mile road trip in the new i3 sedan across Europe. It spent surprisingly little time plugged in.

BMW used an i3 50 xDrive to cover the 3,658 miles (5,886.7 kilometers) from Norway’s North Cape to Tarifa, Spain, charging for precisely 2 hours, 45 minutes and 54 seconds. BMW says that beats the previous Paneuropeana record, set in 2017, by over seven hours.

The challenge is to cross Europe north to south spending as little time charging as possible. Drivers must pass through set checkpoints, but they can choose their route and where to charge. BMW used public chargers, averaging 275 kW during charging stops.

So, how'd BMW pull it off? Chalk it up to a combination of high-powered charging, long range, and strong efficiency, all enabled by the automaker's new 800-volt Neue Klasse EV tech.

5 kWh/100 km (around 5 miles per kWh), meaning each charging stop provided a lot of mileage. 7 kilowatt-hour battery would deliver 540 miles (869 km) of real-world driving range before hitting 0%. That's quite a bit more than the i3 50 xDrive's 468-mile EPA rating with 20-inch summer tires. The record-breaking i3 had 19-inch aero wheels and low-rolling-resistance tires, which certainly helped.



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