How to charge your BMW Hybrid & maximise driving range
2020 ж. 15 Нау.
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Our BMW Product Genius Gheorghe Nacu takes you through the easy to follow steps on how to charge your BMW Hybrid. Gheorghe also takes you through some efficient driving tips to maximise the range you can achieve from each charge.
An other way to use this car efficient: drive in electric mode if you are in town, and sport (combustion) mode when you are at the high way. Configure you sport mode settings all to comfort (except the engine) and you will have a combustion engine that is quick enough without asking too much fuel.
Very helpful, tyvm! Buying my new 330e in 2 weeks so hyping up with videos like this :)
Really informative video, many thanks! Thanks for going into more detail than most and for sharing some great tips in a clear and understandable way. The best BMW hybrid explanation I’ve seen by far.
Finally a strait to the point information so I can program my car easily. Thanks form Canada
Just received my 330e and this video is very helpful, clear and concise. Thank you Frank
+1
3 months later, how are you finding the 330e? Is the 40 mile range close to real-world performance? I do mostly short trips so thinking this could be a practical solution versus a full EV.
what voltage do you need to charge the 330E at home? is it the standard 110v or 220v (in USA)
You can use both, I charge it with the cable that came with the car and it is a standard three prong 110v cable. It takes longer that way but I charge it over night.
I just got 530e and having a hard time to charge it. But this video really helps me to control it. Thank you!!!
wow! that was sooo helpful. test driving 330e tomorrow, absolutely buzzing!
purchased a certified pre-owned and this was helpful. The car charges at work but I haven’t been successful at home not sure why
Fantastic video, thank you for uploading - has been useful for some of my customers.
Great explanation, many thanks.
Thanks for your input, very understandable to us mere mortals.
Frank.....just notice that this vehicle just give 30 km of electric independence! its that ok? or charge can give more? excelent video!
Very informative video, really good and valid information👌regarding the 330e
So you can basically use the car as a non-plugin hybrid like a Lexus. That was valuable information.
Nicely explained 💯
Great video!
Awesome informative video!
I found it to be a good and informative video. With headphones, there wasn't any problem picking up what you said. However, investing in a mic would make the experience even better!
Fantastic video guidance
Excellent, concise guide, great speaker, no errrrm etc. BMW would do well to be including this in some national Marcomm stuff. Agree on mpg hit from the battery button though. Thank you very much anyhow 👍
Very helpful, good job
Is the convenience charger waterproof?
When you charging the battery while you driving by pressing the battery button , does it charging through the engine or just from the brakes?
very well spoken
Thank you!!!
Thank you for this. Just got my new 330e today and everyone is panic buying fuel
Very good information 👌
one missing important feature is to schedule the car to start charging at the exact time you want, not the departure time (since certain time give me best price). I chose depart time for tomorrow, but when plugged in sometimes it charges right the way.
So true. We have 50% off at night tariffs for electricity. Would be amazing to have it set to start charging from 11pm till full charged. Really hope bmw can add this feature!!!
You can now do it in the bmw app
Nice and clear explanation. Thanks. Can anyone advise approx how many Kw to fully charge? No-one wants to answer on all the other reviews I`ve watched.
Hello mine takes 11kw for a full charge from 0-100%.
16 amps is the max for level 2?
if you have charged the 330e and you drive in hybride eco pro and the gear lever in sport, the car consumes 5l/100km
Thanks for this video. Just got my 330e last week and has been scrambling to get the best info especially on how to maximize fuel efficiency. Frank, is there any downside if I do not plug it in and charge my battery?
If you don't plug in a hybrid then you're just driving round in a 2 tonne petrol, your fuel economy will be in the bin!
@@oPeanxtBut wouldn't it still do braking/coasting regenerative charging, and/or you can use to Battery Control switch to charge while driving? Of course, you wouldn't get the full benefit of having a full battery each morning, but you would still get higher mpg in auto hybrid mode, no?
How long to charge at 16 amps? 2-3 hours?
Good review but one point from someone who has one, when you say that when you hit the button to charge the battery while you're driving there is a slight decrease in MPG there is a massive hit to the MPG. I've done some crude tests and it appears to wipe about 20mpg off.
My own opinion is that it is not recommended at all ! I own a 320e and never do that. The only use case : you reach a zone when it is not permitted to drive hybrid (only electric) and you don't have enough electricity.
been thinking of getting a 330e 2017 or 19. any helpful thoughts on what to consider, their reliability and what an average service charge i can expect. would appreciate any help thanks
I charge my 330e each evening then put the cable away for nighttime, so I'm going to try that departure time thing on chilly mornings to warm everything up. I t will take a little bit of battery power, but it's a big battery.
nah bro, aircon and heater have a heavy impact, they steal around 1/3 of the range
If you leave the vehicle connected to charger it will warm the interior and battery pack using the charger and not the battery. When the vehicle is connected and locked it also locks the charger so it cannot be disconnected.
It's enjoyable working out how to get the best out of this beast. Zero charge start and a 280-mile journey last week got me 44mpg. Using battery control set at 100% on a 50-mile journey gave 26 mpg - a massive hit to efficiency. I don't find the adaptive mode all that clever: when a destination's in the sat nav it still seems to want to use up all the juice too fast to leave enough for town driving at the end. I'm going to try the suggestion below of battery control set at [just enough for electric at the destination town] - that way I can just go back to CarPlay instead of bothering with the horrible BMW map. I can't charge at home but there's a free charger 10 mins walk away so I use that some days. My commute to work is 31 miles each way over a 1500-foot pass from sea level start, and no charging at work. When I leave home with a full charge by the time I get back at night I'm usually on 68-75 mpg which I'm really happy with - the whole 62 miles is twisty (inefficient but fun) small roads. Freewheeling down the hill gets me around +2-6 miles back each way. This commute has only 3 or 4 places to safely pass other cars so the boost gets used every day ;) Best hybrid I've driven, BMW make it so easy to choose how you want to drive.
Great video though
Using Battery Control to charge the battery to 100% would be a silly thing to do. Using the petrol engine for battery charging is the least efficient use of petrol and denies you the benefits of having a hybrid. For very long trips I start with a battery charged from the cable and set the battery control to somewhere in the range of 30% to 50% depending on how much I want to have in reserves for the final few kilometers before I reach my destination. That way the car will best manage energy flow from both petrol and battery to minimise overall fuel consumption for the trip. As the battery level descends from 100% it will prioritise use of electricity until it reaches the set level and then it will start to prioritise use of petrol. It will still maintain battery level via regenerative braking, etc, rather than using the petrol engine for battery charging. Also, it's best to avoid fully depleting the battery as that will accelerate the aging/degredation of the battery.
Thanks for your input, that helps explain things. I am thinking about getting one, and electric only mode would be great for around town, but twice a week I drive ~160miles round trip with no opportunity to charge half way. What kind of MPG can I expect with this with your 30-50% battery settings? Thanks in advance!
@@Blandified I have been able to achieve around 5.5ltrs/100kms on a longer trip than that (300+kms) with deliberately not charging the battery before I started. That is with normal highway traffic using cruise control set for 110km/hr and with light traffic. Starting off with a charged battery will obviously improve that figure.
What is MPG when using Hybrid Mode, is it equal to say, A Prius?
Its about 35mpg its rubbish. If you use battery control its 20mph ish.. very poor
Don’t use sat nav, use electric only till it runs out then switch to auto. That’s the only way to get highest mileage.
False
I have a 330e and I get 24 miles range displayed from a full charge not the advertised 36 miles. From that 24 miles displayed I think I get about 18 miles of electric only range. BMW say this is because I only do short journeys. Also if I precondition the car it takes it from the battery even if it is plugged in and this drops the displayed electric range to around 17 miles. So on a full charge with preconditioning I get around 12 miles electric range, a third of the advertised 36 miles.
That sucks
Doesn't sound encouraging: Especially if you precondition it with the plug it should increase ? So even if cold weather eats a lot, with departure time set it should be 100% charged AND pre-conditioned as I understand it ?
@@klasfard The only way to pre-condition the car and have 100% charged is, as suggested by youtuber Mazman, to set the departure time to 30 minutes before your actual departure time to give the battery time to recharge after the pre-conditioning. I have not tried this but it should work.
Me too, cant find any explanation for this. All BMW literature says it takes the precondition power from mains but it obviously doesn't!
@@stanoreilly5951 I have now got my car and also experience lots less range when pre conditioning, even if setting the time more than 30 min before, and I am plugged in. However, as I understand it, since I am only able to set it to around 6-7 A when charging via mains, this is not enough. Once I get my charging station and is able to use 16 A I hope that the pre condition will be able to take all of the power via mains. I get around 25-35 km of range (40-56 miles) displayed now when it's cold. It has been around 0C to minus 12 C around here lately. And I find that the range displayed is fairly accurate, but the pre-condition eats around 5 km - so if I have 30 km and the start pre condtion I end up with around 25 km, which seems pretty accurate for the driving I have done
You will use two times more fuel or even more when charging the battery. It is not at all “slightly more”. On the highway the car consumes around 6l per 100 km if you don’t charge. If you start charging, it is immediately 9 to 12 l per 100.
How long will it take to charge fully going highway speed?
I came here to say the same. Have been driving an X3 30e (same engine) for 18 months: there is a huge difference in consumption when you use the battery recharge functionality with the ICE motor.
@@nickthequick hours!
Hi - couple of questions if anyone can answer please. Does it do the brake regen thing that other PHEVs do without impacting petrol use to top up the battery? Also regarding the sat nav destination to help plan a journey to make it more efficient- can you program in destinations like work place so they are easily stored and retrieved? Thanks for the info on the video. 👍
Yes to all your questions.
@@woolychewbakker5277 thank you
Supposed to give you 34 miles charge when full but mine says 15 miles on the screen when full.
Mines 24! 100% 530e
Do you know why it do that
I have a 2020 745Le
Who else has one?
nice, Le stands for the long wheelbase electric version?
and by "uses slightly more fuel" you mean about 5L/100km extra to charge about 50km / 100km driven on Autobahn.
To me it is around 3L/100km extra - but still, kind of defeats the purpose of driving electric if you charge it using petrol. I very rarely use this option.
@@Alex56381 it makes total sense if you're going to be driving in a city after a longer distance. In the city I use plenty more than 3-5l/100km and the electric drive is way more efficient then. I did the Math for me and it makes sense. Plus electric drive in the city feels "elegant" and I really like it. 👍🏻
@@firebladeflow yea, I do the same thing. At 100 km/h I get between 8-10 l/100kms instant consumption depending on how loaded is the vehicle, outside temp etc. In a crowded city it's totally worth to go electric, better fuel economy and I also feel like the petrol engine is protected by not having to do all those 1-2-3 gear rolls and then stop every 10 seconds. Every second that engine isn't spinning while moving, is a second spared in the life of that engine. That's my 2 cents.
@@Alex56381 highway driving it's ok to charge car.you save the ev mode for city driving.
"light will turn back to white &......" you can safely rip the cable out of the side of the car, easy there pal.
Can someone tell me why the battery power goes down on the motorway even if the car is running in petrol mode?
You’ve either got it in full electric, self charging or you’re driving too slow. At 70mph in hybrid mode it’ll only be using the petrol motor. It switches to electric on motorways if the traffic slows below around 60mph
It usually uses battery for climatization, or helps the petrol engine by decreasing the load on it to get a good MPG. You can shuffle trough the BC where it shows you the battery consumption. You will see that when you accelerate, you use more gas but also more electricity. In order to preserve your battery, you need to activate the battery saving mode. I have the F30 330e and the only way to preserve battery is by activating the SAVE mode. The problem with this mode is that it also charges the battery to 90% if it's lower, and it's using a lot of fuel to do so.
@@dutescualexandru182 if you are planinng to have a trip of, let’s say, 200km on regular roads, not the highway, and you let the car to run in the auto hybrid way, meaning letting the car to choose when to use each motor, can you still find yourself in the situation where the battery goes empty? What happens when it’s empty? I assume you have less power, as the electric motor doesn’t help anymore.
@@tofandao the car will never let the battery go empty, after a certain threshold(depending on the mode you are driving) it will start charging the battery with the gasoline engine up to 24%. During this period you still get help from the electric motor depending on how hard you accelerate. The gasoline engine alone is 184 HP so I can't say I ever felt the car being slow.
@@dutescualexandru182 thank you! I have an F10 520D with 184 HP now, and indeed 184HP are enough in most cases, but 530e will be the next one (unless full electric will be a better choice at that time). As a conclusion, if you adapt your driving style to recuperate energy as often as you can, you can avoid most of the times to have gasoline consumed in order to charge the electric motor.
Im thinking to get 530e. don't have car but still watching this video
I got 350 hp,yes I have improved. To get better in 70 kmh,to accelerate. 😅
Can anyone actually confirm if charging from a 3 pin plug still works after you lock the doors? Either it's really slow, or it isn't charging.
I have a 330e and I only have the 3 pin plug cable, no charging point yet. It does charge with the car locked.
@@clivebrooks8207 Cheers Clive.
Absolutely. It also locks the cable in place so it doesnt get stolen.
Yes it charges and keeps the cable locked in when you lock the doors. You can only remove the cable once You’ve unlocked the doors.
Parece ser um vídeo bom mas a pessoa fala muito rápido e não dá tempo de se visualizar a imagem. 👎
Thank you for a very informative video. For some reason, I expected you to sound more... Irish.
330e is actually very intelligent
You buy a volvo
The native nav on the vast major of automobiles is garbage. Google maps via Apple Car Play or Android Auto in satellite view is the best. I own a 330e and Google Maps looks fantastic with satellite view enabled. 👌
Bro can hardly hear a thing lol. Use a microphone please
This was an awful review and suggest you keep your day job. The main point you got wrong is in regards to charging the battery. The 330e car uses regenerative energy to recoup some power, but it also can use the engine to charge the battery i.e the battery control button allows you to charge the battery up to 100%. The other point you are missing is that hybrids are about efficiency. Most of my journeys are short and for those I only use the electric motor. Over a month I do 300 miles and use about 4 gallons of fuel and about 180KWh of electricity in a car that will do 0-60 in under 6 seconds and can cover a long trip without having to stop for hours to charge !
How bmw became a grandpa’s car!😆 Why not just buy a Tesla MS? No sane people buy pile of trash like this!
its a hybrid car goofy
Tesla? Lol. Tesla is only about the electric hype and autonomous driving. Body work and everything bmw will trash tesla every second.
@@honglee6880 got that right brother
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