BMW's New Gen6 Battery Tech Will Give Electric Vehicles Up To 620 Mile Range

BMW has announced details of its next-generation lithium ion batteries for EVs, named Gen6. Due to arrive in the Neue Klasse (New Class) series of cars from 2025, the batteries adopt a cylindrical cell shape as favoured by Tesla - rather than the flat, prismatic cell shape currently used.

Thomas Albrecht, BMW’s head of Efficient Dynamics, told Autocar: “Gen6 batteries will give us 30% or more range than our current Gen5, but we won’t go over 1000km [620 miles] of range, even though we can. We don’t think that such a long range is necessary.”

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