The BMW i4, BMW’s best-selling all-electric mannequin within the U.S. has been barely refreshed for the 2025 mannequin yr.
Regardless of no main modifications on the battery and powertrain facet, the most recent BMW i4 will get extra vary than within the earlier mannequin yr. Sure configurations of the i4 can now go as much as 318 miles.
BMW i4 is BMW’s prime EV mannequin
Through the second quarter of 2024, BMW bought 7,066 i4 within the U.S., which is half of the full 14,081 EV items. It implies that the mannequin outsells the opposite three (i5, i7 and iX) mixed. The brand new 2025 BMW i4 entered manufacturing this month.
There are at the moment 4 variations of the BMW i4 available on the market within the U.S.—the entry-level, rear-wheel-drive i4 eDrive35, the common rear-wheel-drive i4 eDrive40, the all-wheel-drive i4 xDrive40 and performance-oriented i4 M50 xDrive. The 2025 mannequin yr is out there for order in i4 eDrive40, i4 xDrive40 and i4 M50 xDrive guise. We’ve not heard for certain when or if BMW will supply a 2025 i4 eDrive35.
i4 eDrive40 vary up, i4 xDrive40 vary down
The 2025 i4 provides extra most driving vary than the 2024 i4. In keeping with the producer, the i4 eDrive40 with normal 18-inch wheels may have as much as 318 miles of EPA vary—17 miles or 5.6% greater than beforehand. That is a brand new file for the mannequin. With the non-obligatory 19-inch wheels, vary grows 12 miles or 4.2% over the 2024 i4—from 283 to 295 miles.
Nevertheless, once we check out the all-wheel drive i4 xDrive40, the vary decreases by a couple of p.c. The 2025 mannequin model is estimated at 287 miles, down by 20 miles or 6.5% from 307 miles beforehand. The drop is smaller with 19-inch wheels: 11 miles or 3.9%, from 279 to 268 miles, however nonetheless stunning.
The highest-of-the-line additionally acquired a marginal vary adjustment. The bottom i4 M50 xDrive has 267 miles of vary, two lower than earlier than. There isn’t a change for fashions with 20-inch wheels and efficiency tires, which reduce the vary to 227 miles.
We assume that the older 2024 variations will quickly disappear from the BMW web site, and the producer will introduce the brand new entry-level i4 eDrive35 model.
The present eDrive35 has a smaller 68.7-kilowatt-hour battery, in comparison with 81-kWh within the different variations. The U.S. web site doesn’t point out whether or not it is web or whole capability, however we assume web capability. So anticipate a decrease vary than the opposite fashions.
Amongst tiny modifications between the 2024 and 2025 mannequin years, we additionally discovered that the brand new i4 eDrive40 is a bit slower. It’ll do 0-60 mph in 5.5 seconds, as a substitute of 5.4 seconds.
Here’s a listing with all of the variations, every with two wheels sizes:
* EPA vary based on BMW
Pricing
Costs of the 2025 BMW i4 are barely increased than the 2024 mannequin. The 2025 BMW i4 eDrive40 begins at $57,900, $600 greater than the 2024MY. The all-wheel-drive 2025 BMW i4 eDrive40 begins at $62,300, $700 greater than the ’24. M50 pricing goes up $1,000, with a brand new beginning worth of $70,700.
The vacation spot cost elevated by $180 to $1,175 for all fashions.
The mannequin is imported from Europe and thus not eligible for the $7,500 federal tax credit score when buying, even when the sticker worth suits underneath the $55,000 cap for automobiles (because it does for the eDrive35). As with all EVs, the tax credit score nonetheless applies in the event you lease the automobile.
Contemplating that manufacturing of the brand new i4 began in July, the primary buyer deliveries within the U.S. will doubtless begin in a couple of months.
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