[thinkling]

BMW already have a fully electric car out, the i3. It costs ~$50k and has a range of, what, 120mi?

We'll have to wait and see if the fully electric Mini is going to be any better.

But we can look at the hybrid Mini Countryman S E, cleverly getting AWD from putting the electric motor on one set of wheels and ICE on the other set. Great idea. Except... it gets 27mpg. Terrible. The only excuse I can see is that it's a "performance hybrid", i.e. they weren't trying to be particularly fuel efficient.

Volvo currently sells only big cars that get bad gas mileage even in the hybrid versions.

I'm not holding my breath for any of these companies to save the planet.

[princeb]

putting 250mi range on a european car just feels like premature optimization.

my thinking is that bmw is going to sell electric cars with a diff spec in the US, same way bmw doesn't sell 1.5L 3 series there.

that said, given China's penchant for American sized cars, I feel like they're missing out on the two biggest economies in the world focusing on europe/asia exC.