Good news gets even better with news that BMW's new batteries would be good for more than 600 miles of driving!
, when the company announced the new, 46 mm “round” format. At the time, the company said their new cells would offer more range than their current EVs, but we didn’t know how much more. Well, now we do: more tham 1000 km .
“Gen6 batteries will give us 30% or more range than our current Gen5, but we won’t go over 1000km [620 miles] of range, even though we can,” said Thomas Albrecht, head of Efficient Dynamics for BMW,In addition to improved, Lucid-challenging range, the new Gen6 EV battery promises significantly faster charging than the already pretty efficient Gen5s.
Albrecht also noted that, while the US will likely require an electric car’s battery to maintain as much as 80% performance over 10 years of use, BMW’s CATL-sourced Gen6 battery is already expected to perform better.