Any 530e owners out there?

If it's plugged in, yes. It'll heat up the cabin & as a result, defrost/demist too. You'll be setting off in a pre-warmed car from the mains electricity & not need to pull that power from the high voltage battery in the 530e.

Pre-heating doesn't do anything for the high voltage battery - it has no means of heating itself.

On the pre-condition subject, in my experience pre heating or cooling does impact the battery range. It seems (to me) the climatisation uses the charge quicker quicker than the mains can replace it.

On another note: Had mine in for it's first NCT last week.

It passed but all the values for engine emissions were zero. Brakes and suspension and lights were all tested but not the engine.

It was fully charged going in so the engine wouldn't have come on by default, but I thought these days they controlled low/high idle test etc. via the OBD.

Anyone else had a similar experience?

Could any owners interpret what this screen is telling me? Thanks

Over the last 10km, you averaged 83mpg. Your 7th, 8th & 9th kms are blue, ran on battery energy & then obviously exceeded the graph's limit (90mpg).

You ran initially, for the first 3kms, at 45mpg approx. (ePower). It then likely went into charge mode & charged up the battery, doubling your consumption, so dropping your mpg into the low 20s (charge mode). Then you deployed the battery & it ran in battery mode.

Another possible scenario would be you drove spiritedly, or at speed on a motorway, for the middle kms, 3 to 6.

You've also driven 123.3kms since that was reset/zeroed.

Thanks, just got the car at weekend so getting used to this stuff.

Is the pie chart in the corner just for 10km or 123km ? Is "epower" the regeneration energy and "Charge" energy from the grid ?

Do you know what the grey bar to the left of the mpg scale means? It seems to be level with the 90mpg mark.

The 10km covered above would've been 3 or 4 short local journeys last night, dropping kids to training etc. At the start of this 10km the battery was flat. The 3km in blue was due to the car being charged on mains for an hour or so between two of the short trips.

Thanks. It's an M-sport, registered November 2018.

I'm on my second year of extended warranty on my 330e, i went with Comprehensive for 315 with 335 excess. Its a no brainer really, i imagine it can get costly if anything goes wrong.

Bmw direct https://www.bmw-warranty.ie/Start (A comprehensive warranty)

Hi folks, I’m a long term diesel driver and I’m very tempted to move to a 530e this year.

2 questions;

Is there a later version with slightly better electric range and when was this introduced?

Is it possible to get a Towbar fitted to a 530e? I regularly tow a small boat and I also use a bike rack. A retractable one would be preferable

I don't think they are approved for towing at all.

Is yours an LCI model because I usually don't see more than ~25km range on the dash even though the official range is meant to be 40.