This is honestly the direction I’d love to see more EVs going in, instead of having so many SUVs (especially ones the size of the Kia EV9) Really hope more manufacturers come out with estate/wagon EVs, as well as EV MPVs/minivans
BMW 230(?) MPV is built on the same platform as the X1; they could have done an MPV EV buy must have felt SUV/crossovers were what they could sell. Pity.
@@jaturnley - You guys are lucky in that regard. A Porsche costs half the price of the same car in Norway. The i5 Touring costs almost 1.5M NOK or ~ 150K USD in Norway, and it's not even paying 100% of the fees yet.
@@eddiehaugYikes, I thought they were overpriced here. We almost certainly won't even get the Touring here, but I can't imagine it would cost more than $120K US for the top end with all the options if we did.
I would prefer that the Touring/Estate/Variant cars would have a more "boxy" rear, just like the good old Volvo V70 from the 1990's or even the Passat, that gives it much more room and it is easier to have longer and taller items in the back, These "shooting brake" sort of rears on a variant is wasted in my opinion
Yes, boxy trunks are excellent means for sponsoring the power companies. Why not just electrify the Volvo 240, while we're at it? Wonder what drag coefficient that had?
BMW's cars with even numbers should be the stylish ones and the odd numbers are for classic (practical) cars. That's way this iX2 has back shaped like coupe. It is more focused on style than practicality.
I love how messy, yet informative, these videos are. Keep up the great work. Oh, and call the speakers Karmam Hardon in the future. I'm sure they'll love it 😂
It has the same low voltage as the iX1; 320V makes for underperforming charging on sub 150 kW chargers, especially those 50 kW ones where you can only draw 38kW. I have one, it doesn’t matter most of the time in town -in long journeys you have to aim for the 150 or better 350 kW chargers. since the 359 kW charger banks in the Uk tend to me more reliable and have more charge points than the older stuff -that’s really what you should be doing in any EV
Bjørn would you consider doing something like a top 5 ranking of user interfaces among the most popular EV brands? In my opinion many of the legacy automakers are still lagging behind on this (like Audi), both literally and figuratively.
My experience with the iX1 and its phone app *which is a key part of the EV UX* is that the nav system is still for ICE models. You can’t plan a return trip route out in the phone with multiple stops, save it to the car and reuse. You can only send one destination to the car. In the car you can then add intermediate stops (so it preheats) but when you swap drivers during a recharge it doesn’t give the next driver the same route. You have to switch back to the first driver for the plan. Just, well, useless
@@andreasbingkilvr6662 I disagree as I see it is more important especially in Europe that street charging can be done using the included 5m ac charging cable than to save a few steps DC charging. That is just me and many car manufacturers.
Man the iX2 just seems completely irrelevant. Such a poor attempt from BMW. A Model Y LR would cost 1000 Euro less than the cheapest iX2. Now the i5 Touring however, that is a really interesting and practical EV!
@@Beamer_i4_M50 yep, of course more is better than less but lets face it. This is a company car at management level. No manager spends his time 1000km in a car with useless driving. They take either the train or the plane for longer distances. But some people don‘t get that.
I drive 40.000 km per year and just sold my BMW iX3 Msport and got the i5 Msport instead. About 50 km more range and anyway both cars have plenty range for me. I do not want to drive more than 2-3 hours before having a break. BMW has already said they will not aim for much more than the 600 km WLPT range as it is more efficient to charge on route and that makes a lot of sense. People who complain about range of EV´s are usually not the ones owning an EV. Of course there is a difference from driving a diesel car to suddenly having half the range, but it is really easy to adapt...unless you are a retarded boomer 😅
What is the point of having an open shelf under the small centre arm rest that can be seen from the window. Everything has to be hidden or thieves will break into your car to steal ANYTHING.
Bjørn, to be honest I have to do a bit off swearing here 🤬😅...nobody packs up their "shit" in banana boxes! I was just in my summerhouse with my family of 4 people with 4 sportsbags, food, wine, boots, jackets, some tools, a new lamp and some other stuff. The boot is 490 Liters in the sedan, so it is not small. It is just not square, but if you pack it like normal people (not using banana boxes) then we could easily fit the same stuff we also had in my previous BMW iX3 😄 - personally I enjoy the sedan more than a stationwagen, after I have been driving around in family wagons for 20 years. But of course if you have babies with trollies and stuff, there is no way around the stationwagen version 😉
@@maurieezzz there is already a standard used by the industry = Liters I get why it can matter for some people how boxy the shape of the boot is, but for most people it is the actual space available. So when Bjørn tries to win a few cheap LIKES by taunting the sedan version I think it is in its place to bring this up.
@@andreasbingkilvr6662 The Phone charger that is larger than 2 large smartphones but can only charge one and has weird "aesthetic" elements. The iluminated stripes.
@@Danne89 no one, thanks.I had the BMW ix 50 for 2 months and i can say that EV it's so far from a real use in a real world when you have do drive for almost 5k km/month. I also covered around 7000km with a BYD Atto 3 and same, not for me. Sales data in the world It's also confirming the trend, no one need EVs cars, even major rentals companies dropped EVs from the fleets due to depreciation and high maintenaince costs.
This is honestly the direction I’d love to see more EVs going in, instead of having so many SUVs (especially ones the size of the Kia EV9)
Really hope more manufacturers come out with estate/wagon EVs, as well as EV MPVs/minivans
BMW 230(?) MPV is built on the same platform as the X1; they could have done an MPV EV buy must have felt SUV/crossovers were what they could sell. Pity.
That i5 touring would be awesome for artic circle sleeping
I saw both cars in BMW World. And the iX2 looks really good in real life. I didnt like the pictures too much, but I was really surprised.
Love an estate car can't wait for the 1000km challenge on this
I would love to see you bringing banana boxes to the expo 😂
Looking forward to seeing your full review of the i5 touring. Hopefully will be a nice, premium BMW EV with much more practical space!
dont ask for that, nice premium BMW EV would cost 100k euro...
@@iManiac7 I mean, we already know how expensive the regular i5 is. This one ain’t gonna be any cheaper lol
The i5 doesn’t cost a fortune 😂😂😂
Yeah, exactly what I thought 😂 - Bjørn's gotten too rich to understand car prices 😂
I mean, here in the US you have to STRUGGLE to get it above $100,000! :P
@@jaturnley - You guys are lucky in that regard. A Porsche costs half the price of the same car in Norway. The i5 Touring costs almost 1.5M NOK or ~ 150K USD in Norway, and it's not even paying 100% of the fees yet.
@@eddiehaugYikes, I thought they were overpriced here. We almost certainly won't even get the Touring here, but I can't imagine it would cost more than $120K US for the top end with all the options if we did.
Compared to the i7, yes.
some proper touring
I would prefer that the Touring/Estate/Variant cars would have a more "boxy" rear, just like the good old Volvo V70 from the 1990's or even the Passat, that gives it much more room and it is easier to have longer and taller items in the back, These "shooting brake" sort of rears on a variant is wasted in my opinion
Yes, boxy trunks are excellent means for sponsoring the power companies. Why not just electrify the Volvo 240, while we're at it? Wonder what drag coefficient that had?
BMW's cars with even numbers should be the stylish ones and the odd numbers are for classic (practical) cars. That's way this iX2 has back shaped like coupe. It is more focused on style than practicality.
i5 Touring looks good :D
Beamer Björn is back! 😂
I love how messy, yet informative, these videos are. Keep up the great work. Oh, and call the speakers Karmam Hardon in the future. I'm sure they'll love it 😂
Loop the video at 6:17 for the OO-Yeah! EPIC sound, like techno music!
Wow they both look very good. 💯
You need to "start the engine" to open the roof! 😂 Same with the iX3, but I hoped the newer cars would solve this...
Why legacy auto makers are so customer unfriendly it sill baffles me how they got to their position in the first place
Love the channel. Aroy dee mak 😋⚡️💯
Please bring Banana boxes with you
I just played around with the BMW online configurator. With M package and some useful extras (for me) I'm currently at 61.160 Euros.
An M60 xDrive Touring at that price, where?
@@andreasbingkilvr6662 That price is for the ix2. Sorry forgot to mention that :(
Interesting, they put covered charged ports at iX2 but they could not do it for the i5...and used a more cheaper solution.
Thats really weird at the i5
Even when you think that Legacy Automaker did something correct finally, it turns out it was a scam all along
Hope we see a 1000km summer run of the iX2.
It has the same low voltage as the iX1; 320V makes for underperforming charging on sub 150 kW chargers, especially those 50 kW ones where you can only draw 38kW. I have one, it doesn’t matter most of the time in town -in long journeys you have to aim for the 150 or better 350 kW chargers. since the 359 kW charger banks in the Uk tend to me more reliable and have more charge points than the older stuff -that’s really what you should be doing in any EV
no sub trunk in the touring like in the i5 limo?
I would say that iX2 is the curvy sister of the iX1
be nice if the i5 touring came to canada... but i won't hold my breath.
Bjørn would you consider doing something like a top 5 ranking of user interfaces among the most popular EV brands? In my opinion many of the legacy automakers are still lagging behind on this (like Audi), both literally and figuratively.
My experience with the iX1 and its phone app *which is a key part of the EV UX* is that the nav system is still for ICE models. You can’t plan a return trip route out in the phone with multiple stops, save it to the car and reuse. You can only send one destination to the car. In the car you can then add intermediate stops (so it preheats) but when you swap drivers during a recharge it doesn’t give the next driver the same route. You have to switch back to the first driver for the plan. Just, well, useless
I5 is enjoying the free shuko extension cord charging, showing how its done! hope they are not pulling to many amps to burn down the place...
IX2 looks fucking awesome.
The back looks like shit
why such a long hood for an electric ?!
I like conventional ❤
I never liked BMW, but they really know how to make cars, with useful details. And we should call the touring the BBB: Big Butt BMW :D
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If BMW can use some wood trim in the interior it would sell better than the i3. ;)
Screwing around 😂😂
Gah, 2 cars we don't get in the US :(
Try to say banana boxes faster 👍🏼😂❤
I5 touring as 4 wheel drive starts at 107000€ the same car as Diesel (I know) only at 65000€ wtf???
Nice cars. Not sure about the illuminated grilles though. I wish BMW could ditch that design language.
I think you can order the cars w/o lit grills.
Finaly a normal EV
New i5 looks cook on the back, front is still toooo edgy and freaky for me
Charge port is on the correct side!!
Yes, if your steering wheel is also on the right!!
@@andreasbingkilvr6662 I disagree as I see it is more important especially in Europe that street charging can be done using the included 5m ac charging cable than to save a few steps DC charging. That is just me and many car manufacturers.
Man the iX2 just seems completely irrelevant. Such a poor attempt from BMW. A Model Y LR would cost 1000 Euro less than the cheapest iX2. Now the i5 Touring however, that is a really interesting and practical EV!
Ix2 looks like ford mustang mach e
Capacity/range of the i5 is much too low for a "premium" car. Why no 100 kwh battery?
I have yet to find someone who needs more than 500km range, except for internet guys :-)
@@Beamer_i4_M50 yep, of course more is better than less but lets face it. This is a company car at management level. No manager spends his time 1000km in a car with useless driving. They take either the train or the plane for longer distances. But some people don‘t get that.
I drive 40.000 km per year and just sold my BMW iX3 Msport and got the i5 Msport instead. About 50 km more range and anyway both cars have plenty range for me. I do not want to drive more than 2-3 hours before having a break. BMW has already said they will not aim for much more than the 600 km WLPT range as it is more efficient to charge on route and that makes a lot of sense. People who complain about range of EV´s are usually not the ones owning an EV. Of course there is a difference from driving a diesel car to suddenly having half the range, but it is really easy to adapt...unless you are a retarded boomer 😅
@@16Cylinder so true👏
What is the point of having an open shelf under the small centre arm rest that can be seen from the window. Everything has to be hidden or thieves will break into your car to steal ANYTHING.
Not every place in the world is like that.
@@Tschacki_Quacki Dare you to leave something of value in your locked car.
all plastic ix2 😮
Bjørn, to be honest I have to do a bit off swearing here 🤬😅...nobody packs up their "shit" in banana boxes! I was just in my summerhouse with my family of 4 people with 4 sportsbags, food, wine, boots, jackets, some tools, a new lamp and some other stuff. The boot is 490 Liters in the sedan, so it is not small. It is just not square, but if you pack it like normal people (not using banana boxes) then we could easily fit the same stuff we also had in my previous BMW iX3 😄 - personally I enjoy the sedan more than a stationwagen, after I have been driving around in family wagons for 20 years. But of course if you have babies with trollies and stuff, there is no way around the stationwagen version 😉
What do you use, if you want to move a sh!tload of items; shoe boxes???
@@andreasbingkilvr6662 a trailer....
@@maurieezzz there is already a standard used by the industry = Liters
I get why it can matter for some people how boxy the shape of the boot is, but for most people it is the actual space available. So when Bjørn tries to win a few cheap LIKES by taunting the sedan version I think it is in its place to bring this up.
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iX2 looks and feels very cheap inside
That IX2 is so ugly!! 😂
IX2 range is shit though
Sorry but those are ICE cars with en EV engine. Thats still bullshit. Thats not an EV Platform.
BMW spends so much effort on useless gimmicks that are even ugly. The time of premium german cars is indeed over (coming from a bavarian)
Such as what, exactly?
@@andreasbingkilvr6662 The Phone charger that is larger than 2 large smartphones but can only charge one and has weird "aesthetic" elements. The iluminated stripes.
You need a 5 Touring? Buy a diesel one not a stupid Ev!
Who hurt you?
@@Danne89 no one, thanks.I had the BMW ix 50 for 2 months and i can say that EV it's so far from a real use in a real world when you have do drive for almost 5k km/month. I also covered around 7000km with a BYD Atto 3 and same, not for me. Sales data in the world It's also confirming the trend, no one need EVs cars, even major rentals companies dropped EVs from the fleets due to depreciation and high maintenaince costs.
@@fenix_group87265k km/ month - this is the problem not the EV
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