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Originally Posted by TeknDr

To use Plug & Charge (in Europe at least) is has to be activated in your BMW Charging Contract. Its all very simple:

Setting up:
1. Log in to BMW Charging Portal (I prefer to do that on a PC)

2. Choose your charging contract, Under "Services" and "Plug & Charge" Press "Activate" (See screenshot, in Swedish but understandable)
Input your VIN and the BMW Charging portal will automatically generate the PCID (Provisioning Certificate ID) number. Dont mind about that, once activated the contract is automatically downloaded to your car.

3. Next time in the car: Go to Charging Menu, enable the Plug & Charge by simply pressing a button and if applicable choose the contract you want to use. All your charging contracts automatically come up in a table (max 5).

Using Plug & Charge:
4. When stopping at a charger that can use P&C, the car will inform/remind that Plug and Charge is available here. See photo.
(I did have the Ionity Charger as target in the Nav so far, but I guess the reminder uses GPS position)

5. Plug & Go for a coffee (no buttons to press on the Charger)

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This just started to work in Sweden a couple of weeks ago. Before that, the Charging portal failed to activate Plug & Charge with just the VIN. Have now tried at several Ionity chargers - Works flawless.

(i7, 10/2022 build with iDrive 8.5, currently on 07/2023 software version)
- Would be interesting to know if Plug & Charge also works with iDrive 8 (still on our older iX)?
- And, other Europeans: Inform if you find other Chargers than Ionity where Plug & Charge can be used.

This is how it worked for med but I’m also in Sweden. I was in a hurry so I manually downloaded it to the car, I needed to charge the car

My ix was on iDrive 8.0. And it couldn’t be upgraded because of old hardware. You need 8.5 for plug & charge. Or at least that was my understanding until I read in circle Ks app that circle K in Sweden can plug & charge a BMW i3 which certainly doesn’t have 8.5. ( They can plug & charge an ix as well but not an i7 so their info might be unreliable.) I haven’t tried Circle K plug & charge in my i7 yet but the ionity charging experience is super nice with plug & charge.