{"id":80344,"date":"2025-02-10T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=80344"},"modified":"2025-02-10T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:58:08","slug":"bmw-believes-electric-cars-huge-batteries-not-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=80344","title":{"rendered":"BMW Believes EVs With Huge Batteries Don’t Make Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

BMW jams a 101.7-kWh battery inside the i7 sedan and an even larger 109.1-kWh pack in the iX SUV. It won\u2019t go any bigger than that since there\u2019s no point in squeezing extra range from its EVs. According to the company\u2019s R&D head honcho, Frank Weber, range anxiety has mostly been cured already. Internal studies showed people are satisfied with a real-world driving range of 400-500 kilometers. That\u2019s 249 to 311 miles.<\/p>\n

There are other reasons why BMW is confident that supersized battery packs are not the solution. The impending arrival of the Neue Klasse platform with sixth-generation battery cells will boost energy density by more than 20%. The round cells will also support 30% faster charging, enabling 186 miles (300 kilometers) of range within ten minutes. Future EVs on the all-new platform are estimated to deliver a 30% range boost compared to prismatic cells.<\/p>\n

When asked by Automotive News<\/em> whether bigger batteries are a solution, Frank Weber was against the idea: \u201cNo, you cannot make batteries bigger and bigger because then EVs don\u2019t make sense anymore. There is a lot of talk around building EVs with way more than 621 miles (1,000 km) of range, but why would you do this?\u201d<\/p>\n

BMW\u2019s top R&D brass discussed sustainability, pointing out how harmful it would be to the environment to make even larger battery packs. Weber is quoted as saying that cramming extra-large batteries in electric cars would be \u201cunnecessarily bad\u201d since owners wouldn\u2019t really need that extra range: \u201cFrom the data we have, only very few people travel distances of several hundred kilometers with an EV.\u201d<\/p>\n

BMW is making its electric cars more eco-friendly, not just by improving battery technology. The\u00a0Vision Neue Klasse X<\/a> has a slippery body with a 20% lower drag coefficient. A prequel to the next-generation iX3, the crossover concept has a newly developed braking system and EV-specific tires. Compared to the outgoing CLAR-based iX3, the concept\u2019s overall vehicle efficiency jumped by 25%.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the holy grail of batteries, solid-state batteries are still many years away. Weber estimates the technology is \u201cat least one vehicle generation away.\u201d He believes it\u2019ll likely take a decade before electric cars with solid-state batteries generate significant volumes. BMW\u2019s development boss argues automakers have made substantial investments in current batteries, so they focus on the return on investment before pursuing the next big thing.<\/p>\n

Source: Automotive News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BMW jams a 101.7-kWh battery inside the i7 sedan and an even larger 109.1-kWh pack in the iX SUV. It won\u2019t go any bigger than that since there\u2019s no point in squeezing extra range from its EVs. According to the company\u2019s R&D head honcho, Frank Weber, range anxiety has mostly been cured already. Internal studies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80345,"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-80344","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\/80344","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}