00:06and this is how i didn't win the new bmw x5 for a hole-in-one on the 17th hole
00:12at the
00:13bmw international open but i did get to take a closer look at the new x5 and i have some
00:20thoughts
00:21also what had to be changed because of manga what will have to be changed because customers will
00:28notice the flaws even without my help and what are those strange door handles for and
00:33how on earth are they legal in china let's poke around the new bmw x5 together
00:42the x5 was bmw's first suv or rather sav because bmw insists this car has nothing to do with utility
00:50but is a car for an active lifestyle hence activity sav i'll let you to be the judge of that
00:58but feel
00:59free to share your thoughts in the comment section anyway this is the fifth generation of the x5 it's
01:05internally known as the g65 and it's six centimeters longer four millimeters narrower and about half a
01:13centimeter lower than the previous generation which was called the g05 the wheelbase has been extended
01:19by six centimeters so we can assume that the extra length primarily translates to more passenger
01:25space and that's true although most of those six centimeters went to the driver and the front
01:30passenger the boot capacity is almost the same as in the previous generation with the same powertrain
01:37the new generation has a dozen or so liters
01:44the new generation has a dozen or two liters more in five seat configuration but several dozen liters
01:52less with the second rope backrests folded down there is also no revolution in the standard powertrain
01:59department the former x-drive 30d is now called the 40d x-drive instead of 298 horsepower it now has
02:09313 horsepower thanks to a slightly more powerful electric motor in the 48 volt mild hybrid system
02:17thanks to this extra power despite additional 100 and a bit kilograms it still does 0 to 100 kilometers
02:24per hour in 6.1 seconds the situation is similar with the 40 x-drive petrol which used to be
02:30the x-drive
02:3140i but now the i is reserved for electric models in case of the plug-in hybrid formerly called
02:37the x-drive 50e and now it's called the 50e x-drive the traction battery still has a gross capacity
02:45of
02:4529.5 kilowatt hours but the net capacity increased from 25.7 to 26.5 kilowatt hours and thanks to
02:53a new
02:54three-phase 11 kilowatt ac onboard charger the x5 ph ev is no longer is the ultimate greenwashing machine
03:02but is actually usable however the extra weight has taken away eight kilometers of electric range
03:09despite the additional almost one kilowatt hour net capacity extra the car can now travel only 86 to 102
03:19kilometers in zero emissions mode instead of the 94 to 110 kilometers in the previous generation
03:25however bmw boasts that the new x5 is the world's first vehicle to be offered as standard with five
03:32drive trains we've already had the diesel the gasoline and a plug-in hybrid as you might imagine
03:37there must also be a fully electric model and the fifth power train is a hydrogen fuel cell spoiler
03:44alert the hydrogen version will be offered in the future and only in select markets depending on demand
03:50so probably california but not necessarily eastern europe the cars exist and are production ready but
03:58output is now focused on more popular drive trains the most important announcement regarding the
04:04hydrogen x5 is that the hydrogen tanks are exceptionally flat and fit in the same spot as the traction battery
04:11in the ev version this means that unlike in the toyota mirai where the already small tank takes up
04:18noticeable portion of the interior in the x5 the hydrogen powertrain shouldn't be noticeable to passengers
04:26and of course the hydrogen technology used in the x5 comes from toyota as it's part of their
04:31long-term cooperation which was announced a few years ago but and this is just my unconfirmed theory
04:40the size and capacity of the traction battery in the electric version is a result of designing the
04:45multi-drive platform with hydrogen propulsion in mind what's the deal here the bmw ix5 60x drive has a
04:55141 kilowatt hour traction battery that's nearly 20 kilowatt hours more than the tesla cybertruck
05:01according to my conservative estimates a larger battery adds about 100 to 150 kilograms and the x5
05:08already weighs 2.9 tons now i'm sure they calculated this very carefully and decided that reducing the
05:15car's weight won't give an extra 100 kilometers of range however the time needed to charge the car at
05:22home a 22 kilowatt charger ac is standard or on the road how many 460 kilowatt chargers dc do you
05:31know of
05:31is unnecessarily longer and almost three tons now the frunk is a plus and that concludes the all facts
05:41part of this video next are my thoughts and opinions on features which seem to be designed to sell the
05:48x5
05:48on social media and we'll start with the x-motif headlights when the first photographs were leaked
05:55even before the embargo was lifted a friend immediately sent me a picture of a pig from the
06:00angry birds game when you hit the pig its eyes turn into x's i raised this issue with one of
06:07the bmw
06:08representatives and it turns out they also noticed because in far eastern pop culture especially in
06:14manga an x over the eyes indicates that the character has lost consciousness has been knocked out or killed
06:21that's why the headlight motif can be changed from an x to two parallel lines the x5 is bmw's next
06:30model
06:31after the ix3 the new 3 series and the refreshed 7 series to feature the panoramic i drive cockpit
06:38this display spans the entire width of the cockpit under the windshield i talk more about it in my bmw
06:45ix3 review but i'll do a full panoramic i drive review in the future when i've spent a few days
06:51with
06:51a new bmw rather than just a few hours during the launch event the x5 also comes as standard with
06:57a
06:57passenger screen because apparently that's what customers have been missing now in my opinion
07:02this is simply a nod to chinese customers but if you are from europe or the us and prefer staring
07:08at the screen instead of talking to other people in the car or admiring the world outside let me know
07:14in the comments of course the driver can't see the display while driving now the interior is spacious
07:20and finished in high quality materials including leather and slate i mentioned the use of stone
07:27in a car once before during the presentation of the jaguar type double concept car you can find out
07:34more about it in a video on my channel now speaking of leather there are vegan options but this time
07:42the word recycling isn't mentioned even once in the entire 62 page long press release about the x5
07:50i have a feeling that bmw has realized it went overboard with the recycled materials in the ix3
07:56and knows it's targeting a different customer with the x5 now the only problem is the lower door panels
08:03and door pockets which are made of cheap plastic and bmw is aware of it and they're working to find
08:09a solution so that in later models the lower door trim is made of better materials they just need
08:14to save money elsewhere and in a way that won't be noticed by the customer and speaking of lower
08:20parts of the door this is where the emergency manual release lever is located under normal
08:26circumstances the doors open and close automatically by pressing a button inside on the doors or by
08:32pressing the winglets that replace the door handles on the outside similar winglets were previously
08:38used in the volvo ex60 although even earlier they were also present on the mustang mac e but in the
08:45mustang the winglets were just to pull the door open because the release button was on the b pillar
08:50however in volvo and bmw you actually press the winglets now my first question to volvo during
08:56the launch event a few months ago and now i didn't get a clear answer from them still my question
09:02was
09:02in what world is this a safe solution volvo said something about redundant power supply but i
09:09didn't feel like i got a clear answer so i asked the same questions and expressed my doubts to bmw
09:14who
09:14said hold my beer now apparently bmw's solution is much safer than volvo's because there are even
09:20more redundancies and if everything else fails a bolt inside the door drops and transforms the fixed
09:28winglet into a movable analog door handle but what about the chinese market where the new regulations
09:35ban hidden and electronic door handles now apparently bmw has read the chinese regulations carefully
09:40and it turns out the protruding part of the door handle needs to have a specific surface area and the
09:48bmw and volvo winglets clearly meet this requirement so another question arises what's wrong with regular
09:56door handles to which bmw responds that when working on the new x5 they focused on what's called
10:04monolithic design and the door handles normal door handles disrupted this design from the sides now i
10:12preferred the distinctive muscular shoulder line that bmw has always raved about but now they want a
10:20monolith so there we are then bmw claims the winglets are mainly a design choice nothing to do with
10:28aerodynamics but my bullshitometer is picking up some crappy sense still all i have are my suspicions and
10:36will have to wait until autumn for my driving impressions and what do you think about the new bmw x5
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