You have to have a completely different mindset to how you drive and see driving in an ICE car then in an electric car. Glis Guy, you looked at the BEV like you look at an ICE car, I.e. I can get 600 miles out of a tank, that’s not how you look at BEVs. The majority of drivers in this country only average 20-40 miles a day, and instead of the ICE car attitude of fill up when I’ve used most of the tank of fuel, with a BEV you follow ABC, Always Be Charging, I.e. you keep the “tank” filled up to around 80% unless doing a long journey then charge to 100%. As for the car being noisy, blame BMWs choice of tyres and the fact it’s a BMW. As for drive, meh, any other system works just as well and if it was the bees knees, then other manufacturers would ok for the 90’s have gone the same way. The system was ok for the 90’s. you need to try other BEVs away from BMW, who don’t have a track record in electric vehicles, still using ICE platforms to build them.
Not sure that I want to be forced into having a different mindset in all honesty. Convenience is far more important to me than running costs, so a 5 minute refuel in the petrol station in our village once every 3 weeks (cheaper than the supermarkets – both petrol and diesel currently 1.399 per litre) and the knowledge that I don’t have to do anything whatsoever to the car in the intervening 3 weeks suits me just fine. I also like having a range of 600 miles for our holidays, the fact that I don’t have to make stops en-route that I don’t want to and can at any time restore that 600 miles range in 5 minutes. Very happy to pay extra for that convenience.
I won’t enter into the usual anti-BMW nonsense that some posters on this forum spout, as it’s almost always based on ignorance. I’ve driven hundreds of cars from most marques and know which make I find gives me the best balance of quality, refinement, performance, economy, driver enjoyment, infotainment and ease of use. It doesn’t bother me one jot what others think. Each to their own.
When I’m forced to have an EV I shall certainly try a number of different makes and models. I am confident that, by then, many of the things that I would find irritating about them now will be resolved.