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Originally Posted by prei1978
I've been keenly waiting for a proper luxury EV that is built by people that knows how to put cars together. Never really wanted to pay $150,000 on a car and have the rear door misaligned with the window behind it by nearly an inch.
That said, I'm still having reservations about EVs in general, especially for the main family car like this, and it comes down to range. Take for example a trip I have planned for April where I'll drive about 3500 miles over 2 weeks, and lets imagine that my B58 G23 M440i can do an average of 250 miles per tankful of gas (conservative) and an i4 M50 equivalent could do 250 miles per charge (optimistic). That would be 14 fuel stops on the M440i for a total of about 2:40 hr, but 112 hours charging (8 hours per full charge) for the EV. It makes it that much harder to plan, especially because the first leg of the trip is from MA to SC for just under 1000 miles, and while I can plan to do it in a single day in a gas-powered car with 4-5 fuel stops, when I add the charging times for the EV I would most likely need 3 days.
Right now I'm torn between buying an X7 with a B58 for its tried and tested technology and reliability, or the iX for its innovative technology and supreme luxury and quality, but can't quite make up my mind.
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Actually according to ABRP, driving in an i4 M50 from Boston to Columbia as an example, it would take 18h 25m, including 2h 51m total charging time (adding about 3 hours to just on-the-road time), which would include stopping to eat somewhere for an hour or so, and assuming I could find a charger nearby would add nothing for that), and assuming you started out with a 90% charge. For a 930 mile trip in my X5, I'd need at least 6 stops (for me, not the car), and counting 15m per fuel/break stop in addition to the hour needed for lunch, about 2h total for stops, making the actual difference about an hour between petrol/electric. If I drove straight through to the max on my tank with a slight reserve, I'd spend about 20-30 minutes refueling for about a 16h trip. And be very uncomfortable...
