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Sabs4593

Discussion Starter · Mar 15, 2022

Went and drove the dealers demo today. Loved it! Only thing is that when you put in a destination it doesn’t preload the chargers you stop at like Tesla does. Is there a setting in navigation that will tell you what chargers you need to stop at to get to your destination? I’m in the USA.

Can’t wait for ours to get here!

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Vivek Nayyar

· #2 · Mar 17, 2022

I have the same question. I think they will probably add this feature in an upcoming over-the-air update. Let's see what other, more experienced members have to say about this.

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ICS_UK

· #3 · Mar 21, 2022

Sabs4593 said:
Went and drove the dealers demo today. Loved it! Only thing is that when you put in a destination it doesn’t preload the chargers you stop at like Tesla does. Is there a setting in navigation that will tell you what chargers you need to stop at to get to your destination? I’m in the USA.

Can’t wait for ours to get here!

It does in the EU see seperate post - you need to be patient it took about a minute to do a 800 mile route for me and suggest a route. Unlike Tesla it has to work on numerous charging networks and chargers - at least over here in the EU

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dutyfree

· #4 · Mar 24, 2022

We did a test drive at our dealership last week (ours has left the factory, hoping to get it delivered in May). We played with the nav for only a couple of minutes and put in a sample route. It seemed to show every charger along the way. Does anybody know if there is a filter feature to, most importantly, show only DC fast chargers? Or specific charging networks? Our Genius at the dealership was very knowledgeable but hadn't dug that far into it.

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ICS_UK

· #5 · Mar 25, 2022

dutyfree said:
We did a test drive at our dealership last week (ours has left the factory, hoping to get it delivered in May). We played with the nav for only a couple of minutes and put in a sample route. It seemed to show every charger along the way. Does anybody know if there is a filter feature to, most importantly, show only DC fast chargers? Or specific charging networks? Our Genius at the dealership was very knowledgeable but hadn't dug that far into it.

It should only show chargers on a route you need to get to your destination so on a thousand mile trip could be as few as 4 200kW.
When you search for chargers you can set filters on kW rating and payment options like using your BMW charging card etc. and save these options
It doesnt seem to apply these when you plan a route which it should do or give you the option to use saved settings
Other iX drivers who have driven a 1000 mile route use ABRP and when I tried it offered the same route as BMW but selected ultrarapid chargers Ionity in the EU
You can then set your BMW navigation to these chargers and you should get the battery pre-conditiong for rapid charging

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From the car but not at 100% charge, the Osprey was 50kW hence 71min Ionity would be 195kW

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dutyfree

· #6 · Mar 29, 2022

Fantastic. Thanks for the info. That's a great idea to plan with ABRP and then set the results into the nav system.

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PanamaRod

· #7 · 11 mo ago

The MyBMW app (mine is Android) works just like Tesla app. Put in your final destination and it (first checks your battery's current state of charge) then plans your route with specific stops with expected percent charge when you arrive and the amount of time to charge to a specific charge level to reach the next charging stop (for each stop until you reach your destination). It recommends enough percent of charge and estimated range with plenty of margin. (I've never seen anything less than 10% estimated battery charge.)

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