Overview
- BMW reported an internal, planned road test in China in which an iX3 50L covered 1,030.2 kilometers on one charge and arrived with five percent battery remaining.
- The company framed the drive as a carefully designed demonstration on a specific route and said the outcome should not be read as an everyday range figure for buyers.
- BMW’s result exceeded the model’s quoted Chinese CLTC rating of 919 kilometers by more than 100 kilometers under the test conditions.
- BMW attributes the distance to Neue Klasse architecture, a large cylindrical-cell battery and a new Gen6 powertrain that the company says is roughly 20% more efficient, though those technical claims are primarily company-sourced and not yet independently validated.
- The long-wheelbase iX3 50L is being marketed for China with preorders opening at the Chengdu Motor Show and will not be offered in Europe or North America, but journalists note China’s CLTC test method tends to give more optimistic range figures than WLTP or the U.S. EPA.