00:00We are heading for 500 now.
00:05And here it is, yeah!
00:09Good to everyone, we have officially crossed 500 miles.
00:13Amazing, amazing.
00:21This is a journey customers can do every day.
00:24More than 500 miles without a charging stop with the new BMW iX5.
00:31My name is Michael Adas.
00:33I led the project for the last five years and stepped in at the very beginning.
00:38The aim is simple.
00:40From San Francisco to Newport Beach in one go.
00:44So, let's start the California 500.
00:51The large battery in this car provides the energy, but efficiency is much more.
00:58Of course, speed is a major factor.
01:00But also, wind, temperature, aerodynamics are important and the style of driving matters.
01:08The management and complex interplay between all these components brings the long-distance driving.
01:21Roughly half time of our long-distance drive.
01:25250 miles of our 500 miles.
01:28The car has about more than 50% in the battery.
01:33The average mileage is 4.3 miles per kilowatt hour.
01:37So, the car is ready to keep going.
01:40The question is whether the driver is.
01:48We are now in our final quarter.
01:51Looking here, 430 miles driven.
01:54So, about 90 miles to Newport Beach.
01:59And we are on a state of charge here.
02:02It's 24% energy.
02:05Our range is, what you can see, 138 miles.
02:09It's very transparent.
02:12It's predictable here, what the car shows.
02:15And this makes me confident, we will go for Newport Beach.
02:24We are heading for 500 miles now.
02:29And here it is.
02:31Yeah.
02:33Good to everyone.
02:34We have officially crossed 500 miles.
02:37Amazing, amazing.
02:39500 plus.
02:41Yes.
02:42Did it.
02:46Yes.
02:47In San Francisco of the Salerno of San Francisco this morning.
02:49And arrived here with the iX5.
02:51It's possible to do a long distance ride.
02:54And even more, we started in the very early phase in this project, aiming about 400 miles.
03:00And then we said, so, no, let's go for 450.
03:04And we hit 450, and then somebody said, so, why not 500?
03:08and we did it today, the 500.
03:10And with the additional range,
03:12it is possible to do 550 miles with a new BMW iX5.
03:21After a long distance drive from San Francisco
03:25here to Newport Beach, over 500 miles,
03:29I needed really long sleep.
03:32But now on the next day, the iX5 will recharge
03:35at about 30 minutes, and it will go 400 miles plus.
03:40Let's charge it, and then the next journey.
