BMW i3 Range Extender car review – relax, you’ll get there

Hot on the heels of our review of the BMW i3 comes the BMW i3 Range Extender. It’s still driven by an electric motor, but with your ‘range anxiety’ allayed.

11 November 2013

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Likely to be the BMW i3’s natural habitat, with or without a range extender

What is it?

THE BMW i3 Range Extender is BMW’s brand new electric car, fitted with a range extending, 2 cylinder, 647cc petrol engine.

The minute you grip the steering wheel it feels rock solid, very premium, very ‘must have’

It’s not to be confused with the BMW i3 without the range extender (you can read our review here).

Nor is it to be confused with a hybrid as the petrol engine doesn’t drive the car, it recharges the batteries and doubles the BMW i3’s real-world range to approximately 200 miles, thus allaying ‘range-anxiety’.

 

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But you can keep topping up the BMW i3 Range Extender with 9 litres of petrol for as long as you like. So at least in theory the country is wide open

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