GerryMD2024
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Hi BornElectric2018. I fully agree. I love the screen sizes & screen usability & stick options & control buttons. and the Bluetooth system works perfectly when I make or receive standard calls, and Skype calls & WhatsApp calls (including the Wheel control to accept & set up calls).It's precisely because the i3/i3s doesn't have all of the latest tech gadgets that the possibility of having a battery replacement that brings improved tech and a significant increase in range really excites me. There's a beautiful and functional minimalism in the interior design of the i3 that sets it apart from every other car on the road today. Improving its range without changing its fundamental character would be a huge win.
You might argue that the Tesla model 3 and model Y have a minimal interior design, but it's minimal to a fault - it's motivated more by saving money than it is about any carefully considered design ethos to create a focused, refined driving experience. I really can't stand the trend in new vehicles to do away with all physical controls in favor of gimmicky touch screens, capacitive touch controls, and "driving experience" lighting and sound profiles. Just shut up and give me a knob or a button that allows me to develop muscle memory and quickly make climate adjustments instead of forcing me to take my eyes off the road to poke some arbitrarily rendered target icon on a UI nightmare of a touch screen interface. Sadly, BMW is as guilty of this as any other manufacturer at this point. I guess knobs and buttons just aren't cool enough for the tech-obsessed, screen-addicted zombies buying cars these days...
I also despise Tesla's "just put everything in a giant, centrally mounted touch screen" school of interior design and vehicle systems control. The latest iteration of the model 3 even does away with steering column stalks in favor of buttons on the steering wheel. Go ahead and call me an old fart, but I want important driving information to be conveyed to me quickly and efficiently, and I want to see that information directly ahead of me and above the steering wheel, whether on a HUD or a small screen. Some people (especially tech enthusiasts or young YouTube automotive "reviewers") bitch about the small instrument LCD panel in the i3, but I think it's perfect. I don’t need to see a freaking video game on a giant 24K resolution screen in ten million garish colors when I just want to check my my speed and range. To me, the driving dynamics and handling characteristics of a car is the primary source of entertainment, not some gimmicky, overly complicated infotainment system that takes my eyes off the road and is obsolete the minute it rolls off of the factory floor.
/rant
How do we get Lion Smart to work wit us ?
[A] we get EU to tell them they must.
Commercially we need to offer Lion Smart a Euro 15 million order ( € 5 m per year 2027, 2028 & 2028 )
[A] Target EU laws
Which country do you live in ? If in EU, can you ask people you know, who own I3 cars to consider my suggestion below that we all contact the EU commissioner in our own country & own EU Parliament member representative ?
We can hope that EU laws force BMW to allow Lion Smart to provide long range batteries for us. I.e. to make it illegal for BMW to 'not allow' Lion Smart supply us with new longer range batteries.
( if it is true, as a previous member wrote, that either BMW's battery technology transfer deal with Lion Smart prevents Lion Smart from upgrading our I3 cars, or that Lion Smart will only supply truck batteries & electricity storage)
then both BMW & Lion Smart should be reported by all Eu citizens who own I3 cars, that they need to plan now to meet new EU targets. See below announcement:
already EU Press release on 10th July 2023
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/...-regulation-on-batteries-and-waste-batteries/
The regulation of the European Parliament and the Council will apply to all batteries including all waste portable batteries, electric vehicle batteries, industrial batteries, starting, lighting and ignition (SLI) batteries (used mostly for vehicles and machinery) and batteries for light means of transport (e.g. electric bikes, e-mopeds, e-scooters).
Circular economy
The new rules aim to promote a circular economy by regulating batteries throughout their life cycle. The regulation therefore establishes end-of-life requirements, including collection targets and obligations, targets for the recovery of materials and extended producer responsibility.The regulation sets targets for producers to collect waste portable batteries (63% by the end of 2027 and 73% by the end of 2030), and introduces a dedicated collection objective for waste batteries for light means of transport (51% by the end of 2028 and 61% by the end of 2031).
The regulation sets a target for lithium recovery from waste batteries of 50% by the end of 2027 and 80% by the end of 2031, which can be amended through delegated acts depending on market and technological developments and the availability of lithium.
The regulation provides for mandatory minimum levels of recycled content for industrial, SLI batteries and EV batteries. These are initially set at 16% for cobalt, 85% for lead, 6% for lithium and 6% for nickel. Batteries will have to hold a recycled content documentation.
I would rather install much higher energy density cells with no more than 50 kWh capacity that would result in a decrease in vehicle weight. But then I live on an isolated island on which I couldn't drive more than ~120 miles round-trip, so the range of our 42.2 kWh battery pack is more than enough. Those who would like to road-trip their i3's might not be too concerned about the additional vehicle weight of a large-capacity battery pack although the 50 kW DC fast charging maximum power would really hamper long-distance travel.
