The following-generation BMW iX1 electrical SUV has been noticed getting charged up throughout European testing.
Whereas the present iX1 shares its structure and physique with petrol, diesel, and plug-in X1 fashions, the next-generation will differ considerably from the combustion-powered X1 line.
That’s as a result of it’s going to use a shortened model of the EV-only Neue Klasse platform that made its debut earlier this 12 months with the brand new iX3and which may even underpin the upcoming i3 sedan.
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The brand new iX3 options an 800V electrical structure that, in top-spec fashions, helps DC quick charging as much as 400kW. At launch, the iX3 will likely be accessible in 50 xDrive trim with a dual-motor setup making a complete of 345kW and 645Nm, and a 108kWh battery good with a claimed WLTP vary of 805km.
A single-motor variant with a smaller battery will turn out to be accessible globally from 2026, and will have round 600km of vary.
This iX1 prototype is fitted with loads of false physique panels and disguise tape to cover a lot of its styling components, however we will already see its total design appears to be a shrunken model of the iX3.


Up entrance there’s a skinny, conjoined double kidney grille flanked by a chunky lighting strip, and alongside the aspect there are flush-fitting come out door handles.
Our spy pictures company additionally bought a peek contained in the cabin. Whereas a lot of the inside is roofed up, we will see the iX1 makes use of the identical parallelogram-shaped floating touchscreen because the iX3. Like its greater sibling, the iX1’s inside appears largely devoid of buttons.
The one bodily switches seen are within the centre tunnel, and so they management the transmission, digital parking brake, hazard lights, and demister.

It appears as if the iX1 may even be accessible with Panorama Imaginative and prescient, a slender of instrumentation shows that stretches throughout the width of the automotive the place the windscreen and the dashboard meet.
With the i3 sedan attributable to be unveiled subsequent 12 months, it’s possible the brand new iX1 gained’t be accessible globally till 2027.
