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I'm fortunate to have an automotive bookshop within driving distance and stopped by the other day. On the shelf was a book about BMW i that I've never heard of before, BMW i Visionary Mobility: https://www.hirmerverlag.de/us/titel-1-1/bmw_i-1673/ I bought the only one they had in stock for a...

Apparently this show has been around for a while but I just heard of it last week: https://www.electrifyexpo.com The 2022 California show wrapped last weekend and is moving on to Seattle, New York (Nassau), Miami, and Austin. Some observations... This was a good show! It was all outdoors...

BMW i3 Unique Forever Edition: https://www.bmwblog.com/2022/03/14/bmw-i3s-unique-forever-aventurine-red/ (the article's gallery has more pics)

Junk postings have spiked over the past few weeks... how best to reach forum administration about this garbage? http://www.mybmwi3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=71424#p71424 http://www.mybmwi3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=71426#p71426 http://www.mybmwi3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=70951#p70951...

Having seven years of driving my (original owner) 2014 BEV with minimal issues, I recently upgraded to a new 2021 i3s BEV and was surprised to receive a "Drivetrain: Check soon" error message yesterday on the instrument cluster. The control display (iDrive) provides more details: During my...

My 2014 i3 BEV would lock all doors when driving away, and it drove me nuts. Fortunately I was able to add the "disable" option by coding with E-SYS: Having had my 2021 i3s BEV for a few months, I was able to locate DOOR_LOCK_AFTER_DRIVING_AWAY using Bimmercode in Expert Mode and enable the...

Has anyone come across a source of i3 production numbers? Particularly, I'm interested in a breakdown of how many of each color were made in 2021. Information like this is relatively easy to come across for M cars but I haven't found anything for i cars. Thanks!

About two weeks back I started getting PDC falses when parking. I'd get "red" distance from the passenger side front fender when in free air. I thought the sensor might have been dirty but when I took a proper look, the sensor had fallen in and was dangling loose behind the fender panel (hence...

Operating a motor vehicle should occupy 100% of a driver's mental capacity. Of course many will look at their iDrive for navigation or media access, attend to a little one in the back seat, or sneak a peek at their phone. It's not smart, but it happens. Respectfully, Mr. satnavninja, why...

In the early 2010s BMW started to share details about their upcoming electric vehicles. We drive them today as the i3 and i8. Back then the i3 was referred to as the BMW Megacity Vehicle, a name that didn't last very long. In 2013 BMW delivered – the production version (other than the...

I've been a long-time BMW owner and have never seen a prior model's lifespan whipsawed like what's happened with the i3. It seems every six months the i3 has either its end in sight or is getting further development. Add in the i5, the i4, the Vision iNext... electrification of the rest of the...

Regarding a 2014 BEV with DCFC... I've got about a 50% success rate with L3 EVGo / CCS charging (L2 charging works 100% of the time). When trying to charge from an EVgo CCS station, half the time (having connected the CCS cable) the EVgo station refuses to start charging. I've made a solid...