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New, immature technology has new (and interesting :-)) failure modes. Batteries were a big concern - hence the 8 year warranty on the battery -- but the battery warranty is not much use if the motor/gearbox/EME fails after five years and 90K miles. Quite a bit of EV related electric motor...

There are many reports of gearbox/motor failures, most are fixed under warranty, so make sure you get a warranty. Of course some cars will do more than 100K although I doubt that many 64ah BEV's will have, given the poor range. The BMW lifecycle cost model is based on 150K Kilometres/90K Miles...

Help! BMW have advised that the EME motor and possibly the gearbox needs replacing on my 2015 i3 with 89k miles on the clock. £5k and £3K respectively. No goodwill available due to mileage and BMW UK tell me that the design life of the car is 90K miles (150k kms). 8 years warranty on the...

I'm guessing you've fixed this now but the problem you have is that the new battery is not powering up the i3 systems long enough for the HV DC-DC converter to activate and take over supplying power to the 12V system. Situation: 12v Battery failed - not able to deliver power and stay above 12v...