The BMW 530e Annoyed me.. But Would I Buy It?
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- With the way the world is these days, EV's are looking to take over. Getting the chance to live with a plug in hybrid for over a week. Its given me a lot of things to think about.
Its amazing to get the chance to review the car and share my thoughts, I hope you all
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Plug in hybrids make perfect sense if you do small amount of miles and have a home charger but yeah boot space is a big compromise. I remember my brothers old 2006 Lexus gs450h boot space was embarrassing although that was early hybrid technology. If it was my money I would just go with a smooth 6 cylinder diesel which will give plenty of torque and decent mpg or 530i as you suggested if you don't do many miles
Yeah I just think the reality of owning a plug in hybrid is a little different than you would hope, its a little annoying to remind yourself all the time to plug it in when you get home to make the most out of it.
Same 100% get a diesel or a nice petrol and call it a day, if you want a hybrid or an electric car for local driving around, this car is WAY to big and heavy to make the most out of that lifestyle....
@mrgcc I wish BMW sold the 530d or 540d here in the US - I'd jump into one in a heartbeat. As much as plugging it in is annoying, the same thing can be said for getting gas. The nearest gas station is 10mins from me (while a very short drive, its still a chore I have to do 4 times a month on a pure ICE car), while once I got used to plugging in at home, it takes at most a few seconds per day. The result is that I only have to get gas on road trips.
I recently had a 2023 530e hire car and thought it was brilliant on fuel only possible downside I saw was the slightly smaller fuel tank, I did around 1000 miles in it
oh really? What kind of MPG were you getting? Were you plugging it in before driving or did you do it similar to me? I guess for me the main issue was that without plugging the car in to charge the petrol engine really isn't doing good with struggling to pull the weight of the car, considering its only getting around 10% better than my M5, which has pretty much twice as much power and cylinders I dont think its good enough.
@@mrgcc Not sure on the exact Mpg but it was decent I put around £130 in to do just under a 1000 miles and it had about 200 miles range left of battery and petrol, I did not plug it in I just let the car re charge itself
Did you do mostly motorway driving or local? I am really surprised by that as you can tell I was not getting anywhere near that level of fuel economy in my time with the car. From what your saying you got pretty much 50+ mpg?
I wish I was getting that from the car from my trips 🤣
@@mrgcc I drove from Manchester to Aberdeen, Inverness then followed the Caledonian canal across the country to Fort William over some mountain roads then back to Manchester, A mix of all kinds of roads but mostly A and Motorways, I had it in Eco from the moment I collected it then once I figured out I started trying to charge the battery fully using the re gen braking, I would say 50+ easily, I also did Manchester to Inverness in my 2016 Audi S3 that cost me £160 about 3 years ago..2 full tanks
@@mrgcc As with any phev it needs to be plugged in as much as possible. Since I plug in daily, the car runs on ev going around town. Running on ICE, I get anywhere between 35-41 mpg US on the highway at a steady 70mph. Over the past 2k miles, I've averaged 68 mpg combined.