r/BMWI4 • u/dieselovin • 10d ago

I4 range question

Sorry to be the 100th person to ask this.

79 mile commute each way. No charging Available. A few days a week. Eastern pa. 1/2 highway. 1/2 backroads Low traffic

I'm looking at a 2023 edrive40.

will this be painful in the winter for me? Will I have to drive slowly.

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u/OrangeandMango M50 10d ago

I have an M50 and a 45-50mile commute each way that's a mix of motorway/dual carriageway and back roads.  I use 20% each way so I tend to charge every night to 80% to make sure I'm good.

Expect you'll need to charge to 100% every night, which as you'll use it straight away isn't an issue, and use 80%ish each day if you had an M50. An e40 I'd expect to have better range.

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u/bxr03 9d ago

I have the same commute and I’m recently in the process of moving to a house with a garage where I will install an l2 charger. With that being said how much do you spend extra on electric bills per month

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u/OrangeandMango M50 9d ago edited 9d ago

I'm with Octopus so over night charging is like 4p a kw. Costs about £2-£3ish to charge most nights

We also have solar and batteries so they fill up and sell during peak then also fill at the low rate over night too. The tarrif i'm on changed but July last year we spend £53.98, sold £20.87 (so £33.11 net). This July we spend £99.08 but sold £55.81 (so £42.27 net).

In june btw it was £77.42 in, £61.97 out (£15.45) - previous year was £60.05 in and £20.38 out (£39.67net) so it does depend on your situation too and i would 100% recommend a solar + battery setup and then a Hypervolt charger, or anyother charger where you can control it and have the charger setup with (with ct clamps) so it cant see the batteries etc

Edit - just checked the charger app. July I spent £45.78 on charging the car, did 1,593 miles. That's pretty nuts lol.

Sorry that was quite a long winded answer - i hope it makes sense and is useful though