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Hello Drive a 330e and want to charge it at work. Unfortunately, I would have to pull an extension cable from a socket about 8 to 10 meters long. I would use the weather-resistant PUR 1.5 mm2 cable. I would put the BMW charger under the car in rain and connect it under the car with the PUR cable. Does the plan work like this? On the BMW charging cable it says that you cannot use an extension cable. Don’t really see the point in it. Whether wires in the wall or in the Ka bel comes out on the same. By the way, always load on the lowest 6A level. Thanks Gruss

For months I haven’t been able to redeem the BMW Points in Charging credits. Almost countless emails and phone calls with BMW charging brought hardly any changes. First the facts: Fzg: X5 45e (2019) My BMW App: linked to the Fzg. and BMW Charging App BMW charging App: active contract & charging card BMW Points: approx.46.000 points credits So far so good. I choose e.g. in the My BMW app “Scan & Charge”, then I am forwarded to the BMW Charging App = no error message I choose under PROFIL the BMW Points, scroll down to PREMIUM, select e.g. the 10Euro voucher and press on PUNKTE INLOSEN, then comes a window with the message: “No BMW Charging contract deposited” with the additional info: “To redeem points you need a contract with BMW Charging. Please use your BMW ID for registration” I press in the warning window “To the website”, the browser opens and I log in to the Charging account. I go back to the My B MW App and again try to redeem the BMW Points, the whole thing starts from the beginning and I am told that no BMW Charging contract has been signed. Can anyone help me? Do I do something wrong? Do you have similar experiences?

Good day dear Motor-Talk municipality, I am now on the weekend from 20.01.23 to 23.01.23 to enjoy to drive the new i7 over the weekend. I would like to tell you my impressions. Route: Munich – Cologne / 578 Km Cologne – Westmünsterland / 156 Km Westmünsterland – Munich / 718 Km results relaxed 1,452 Km start on 20.01.23 at 14:30 clock with approx. 97 % battery in Munich. The expected maximum range was indicated with approx. 440 Km. Temperature during the Fah rt at approx. 0 degrees. The speed on the motorway by driving assistant professional relaxed with permanent 140 km/h. Otherwise speed limit + 10 km/h. First stop at Karlsruhe am Hypercharger at 17:45 clock after a little over 3 hours and 290 km. Unfortunately we had a lot of traffic jam on the route at Pforzheim and have lost a lot of time. 20 minutes shop / from 26% to 72% At 18:05 we went on to the next stop: Rest site Bad Camberg. Also here again traffic jam due to Unf By now medium snowfall and temperatures below 0 degrees. Arrival Bad Camberg at 20:13 clock after approx. 190 km drive. 17 minutes charging / from 24% to 63% At 20:30 clock continue to Cologne for the remaining approx. 150 km. Arrival in Cologne at approx. 21:55 clock with 20% battery. => All in all a positive experience. Loading worked without problems, the total 37 minutes waiting were not so bad (keyword Theatre Screen). Saturday spent in Cologne and on a 11 KW AC La Sunday in the morning at 10 am with 100 % battery to Westmünsterland. 156 km on Sunday relaxed in 1.5 hours and arrived at 11:30 am with 54 %. Since family had invited only at 12 am and hates it when you come too soon, 22 minutes on the local hypercharger to save time for later. 22 min charging / 54 % on 80 % departure on 22.01.23 at 16:30 am with approx. 80 % charge. First stop should actually be at the Aral Autohof Bad Honnef Here are the first minor problems: we drove with “load-optimized route”. Thus, the BMW i7 independently proposes charging stations or hyperchargers. We could already see, however, that there was a red ring around the charging column symbol on the map, which is an indication that the columns are either defective of the occupied ones. We thought we could see, maybe what the i7 something we don’t know. There arrived: 6 charging stations; 1 defect and 5 occupied. Before that 2 waiting e-cars. Wi r at position 3. Short view to the charging stations: one with 92%, all others around 30% battery. “That won’t happen”. So followed on the map of the highway and seen a hypercharger in green mark at about 15 km distance. The selected. See there: about 16 charging stations, of which 3 are occupied. Then the question arises to me: why wasn’t it automatically suggested? Then the next peculiarity: BMW i7 plugged into the rest yard in Oberhohenfeld. But somehow he got 23% as a load The message “Loading target reached”. So jump out, load destination turned up again and then it loaded on. Something went wrong with the manual destination guidance from me and the overall charging optimized route to Munich. Unfortunately, the loading process for this column is not shown here in the MyBMW app. At 19:30 clock it went on with approx. 75%. Next stop was a hypercharging column in Bensheim directly at the Aral. At 20:50 o’clock after approx. 150 km. 20 minutes shop / 32% to 72% departure 21:10 o’clock, next loading stop should be at Rasthof Gruibingen. At high Stuttgart airport, however, a hypercharger from the BMW i7 is proposed, which lies a few kilometers before. Since nothing seems to come after that, we go on “number safe” and take the proposal at Kirchheim under Teck. To the emergency we drive there further to Gruibingen. 22:40 o’clock two charging stations at a gas station, a “au ßer Betrieb” sign on it. The other one didn’t want to charge and spat out only one error. So annoyed with 19 % battery further. 15 minutes drove to another charging station nearby. There was already a Tesla and has on the CSS plug, which we would have needed. The other plug was this Chamdeo plug. So we had to wait until the Tesla was finished. But fortunately that was already at 96%. So with 17 % at 22:55 o’clock started charging. Way to Munich 187 Km. 25 minutes La the / 17% on 67% range allegedly at 240 km. Highway was then completely free from Ulm, 130 km/h to save consumption and to come to Munich and then the next day to bring the BMW i7 from home the few kilometers again to the place of delivery. The closer you came to Munich, it became colder and colder. First -2 degrees then at once -7 degrees. Seems to have affected the battery. Just before Munich at Höhe Bergkirchen, the BMW i7 beats again 5 minutes ago to the hypercharger z u go. Otherwise, the battery would be at home at only 9% on arrival. That was done briefly, as he charged with 190 KW. Arrival 1:10 in Munich. 16:30 to 1:10 o’clock/ 718 Km / 8:40 / 4 charging stops / a few times charging stations that were full/defected and also sometimes did not want to charge. Average consumption on the entire journey with actually only highway 28,5 KW/h. But also had heating, seat heating, steering wheel heating etc… Interesting was also that the BMW i7, just before he started with the current In this way it can charge directly with 190 KW at the beginning after the plug-in, but this drops after increasing duration. But is probably normal like that. When I entered the one Charger manually, he somehow did not do that, because he thought that was the final goal, I was probably too stupid to specify the Charger as an intermediate target. Thus the battery was not prepared and he first “only” with approx. 70 KW charged. It was then more but not more than 125 KW he came there. My girlfriend was quite annoyed at the end, with me it kept itself within limits. All the stress with an iD3 or iD4 without a massage and without a suspension like a juice like the i7 and I would also be different on it.

Wanted to pick up our X1 30e next week. Get the information from the dealer that BMW Munich has imposed a delivery stop because there is probably a general problem with a warehouse. Supposedly 5 X1 are affected by this BMW dealer. Does someone have a similar problem and knows exactly what’s going on?