BMW will introduce some improvements to the iX this spring

The Bavarian firm has just announced a series of improvements that will come to the iX electric SUV from next MarchThe company will thus improve the competitiveness of this model just over a year after its launch on the market.

The first of these, available in all versions of the iX, will be A new predictive battery temperature management systemThis system will take advantage of the heat generated by the electric motors to maintain the most suitable temperature for the battery, which will allow for a higher power recharge, thus taking less time.

Until now, the system only started to preheat the battery - if its temperature was lower than optimal - when a fast charging point was indicated as a destination in the vehicle's own navigation system. A methodology that This has been a problem for all those customers who use Apple CarPlay or Android Auto., since the battery preheating did not start automatically, the charging times increased considerably.

With this new system, and as already occurs in the i7, It will also be possible to manually activate battery preheating, thus providing an alternative solution to those customers who are not using the navigator that comes standard with the vehicle.

Park your 2023 BMW iX with your smartphone

The second improvement that new owners of a BMW iX will soon find is a new Professional Parking Assistant. By using the application My BMW, available for Apple iOS mobile devices as well as Android, it will be possible to remotely control the parking maneuver. Owners of a 2023 BMW iX will thus be able to leave the vehicle before maneuvering, with the vehicle taking care of everything while the driver merely supervises.

This assistant can also memorise the manoeuvres required to enter or leave different locations, and the vehicle will then repeat the exact same steps. Once the entire process has been memorised, the vehicle will take control the next time the same location is reached, taking charge of braking, accelerating and turning until the manoeuvre is completed.

Finally, starting this coming March, all versions of the BMW iX will include a new professional charging cable as standard, which will allow charging with alternating current at a power of up to 22 kW.