To be really blunt, the problem with BMW EVs is that they're German. Which means Lucas-refrigerator-grade electronics. With ICEs, they were always able to kinda skate by with crap electronics, but without an ICE, there's no excusing them. Everybody I know who's tried the BMW EVs has sworn off BMW permanently. Generally in favor of Tesla …
To be really blunt, the problem with BMW EVs is that they're German. Which means Lucas-refrigerator-grade electronics. With ICEs, they were always able to kinda skate by with crap electronics, but without an ICE, there's no excusing them. Everybody I know who's tried the BMW EVs has sworn off BMW permanently. Generally in favor of Tesla or Ford. I've been stranded in one, with a dead charger. Wound up spending a day and a half of a two-day vacation dealing with debugging it, getting it towed from EVSE to EVSE, then eventually to a BMW dealer who looked at it askance and implied that dead BMW EVs weren't worth trying to repair.
To be really blunt, the problem with BMW EVs is that they're German. Which means Lucas-refrigerator-grade electronics. With ICEs, they were always able to kinda skate by with crap electronics, but without an ICE, there's no excusing them. Everybody I know who's tried the BMW EVs has sworn off BMW permanently. Generally in favor of Tesla or Ford. I've been stranded in one, with a dead charger. Wound up spending a day and a half of a two-day vacation dealing with debugging it, getting it towed from EVSE to EVSE, then eventually to a BMW dealer who looked at it askance and implied that dead BMW EVs weren't worth trying to repair.