{"id":36436,"date":"2022-11-18T13:34:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T18:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=36436"},"modified":"2022-11-18T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T18:34:24","slug":"bmws-neue-klasse-batteries-will-have-two-chemistries-up-to-800-km-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=36436","title":{"rendered":"BMW’s Neue Klasse Batteries Will Have Two Chemistries, Up to 800 km Range"},"content":{"rendered":"

BMW\u2019s current crop of EVs are pretty impressive, in terms of range, power, and driving dynamics. However, its EV lineup is going to get even better in a few years, with the introduction of BMW\u2019s Neue Klasse<\/a> architecture. According to\u00a0BMW technical development director Frank Weber, who recently spoke to Elektroauto-News<\/span><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Neue Klasse cars\u00a0will have up to 800 kilometers (497 miles) of range from its new round cell battery chemistry.<\/p>\n

When Neue Klasse\u2014BMW\u2019s future electric architecture that will underpin most of its EVs\u2014arrives, it will come with two new battery chemistries, which will allow BMW to offer two different battery packs. Essentially, one is going to be the standard-range chemistry and the other is going to be a long-range chemistry. The standard-range chemistry will offer around 500 kilometers of range (311 miles), while the upgraded battery will have the full-beans 800 kilometers.<\/p>\n

Why have two different battery chemistries and not just have the one longer-range setup? Cost, of course. The idea is that not all cars, nor do all customers, need 800 km of range. So why spend the extra money for range you\u2019re never going to use. Some cars might not even offer the longer-range battery, such as the upcoming BMW i1<\/a> and i2. However, other cars like the upcoming BMW i3<\/a> (an electric 3 Series sedan) and the iX3 could come with the larger battery as an option.<\/p>\n

Weber also claimed there\u2019d be a third battery cell option but it won\u2019t be available anytime soon. It\u2019s a solid-state battery chemistry, which would increase battery density over even the longer, round-cell batteries. Solid-state batteries are the future of EV batteries and are better than current lithium-ion batteries in every way. However, automakers are still a few years away from implementing solid-state technology in their cars.<\/p>\n

Until then, though, BMW\u2019s upcoming Neue Klasse battery chemistry should be a massive improvement over its current setup. And in its current state, BMWs cars are able to reach up to 300 miles of range. But being able to do just about 500 miles worth of driving in a single charge is far more impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BMW\u2019s current crop of EVs are pretty impressive, in terms of range, power, and driving dynamics. However, its EV lineup is going to get even better in a few years, with the introduction of BMW\u2019s Neue Klasse architecture. According to\u00a0BMW technical development director Frank Weber, who recently spoke to Elektroauto-News,\u00a0Neue Klasse cars\u00a0will have up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":36437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}