That's the beauty of over-the-air upgrades. You buy a car, you use it for a few months (or a few years) and then, thanks to a new version of the software, you download a function that didn't exist when you bought it. With the latest OTA update, BMW is introducing an interesting feature on all its cars, (which must be equipped with operating system 7 or later, that aims to bring drivers closer to e-mobility.
In short, by analysing real-life driving data, it tells drivers of a model with an internal combustion engine how the journey would have gone had it been made in a zero-emission car. All the data is also available on the application that you download onto your mobile phone. Direct ICE-BEV comparison The reason why the Munich-based company has introduced this new option is fairly obvious.
It allows you to find the answers to questions such as: "Does an electric car meet my needs?", "Can I continue to get around as before driving a battery-powered car, or will it be more inconvenient?". The new feature, as BMW explains, is intended to show those who still drive a petrol or diesel car that the range of its electric cars is more than sufficient to travel in most cases without even having to stop to recharge. To do this, it is enriched with statistics and data analysing the most frequent journeys, home-to-work journeys and daily journeys of each driver.
BMW presents a new function that lets you compare what an electric journey would be like. Once you've reached 200 journeys, or.