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I'm not speculating on 400/800 V for dhe LCI. I know it's staying with 400V from a friend who is engineer at BMW. This is the whole reason for this strange Rimarc press release about the range and battery cells.

Actually, I learned that I don't care about range. I DO care about charging speeds, though.
I hate charging the i7 above 50% as it really gets slow and therefore I also hate starting above 10% because then the time I get fast charge is so short. Always trying to drain it below 5% before starting to charge.

Obviously, a larger battery makes for a higher average charging speed. I hope that's not the only reason they tout for it.
Hopefully they integrate some more A to get to some more kW.

And btw. I understand the insider timeline this way: only the ICE versions of the nextgen 7 series have been postponed. The Neue Klasse E versions have not been postponed. And from that standpoint it makes some sense to keep the current i7 with a Gen5 architecture and not fully renovated it for only 3 years of time. It then leapfrogs directly to Gen7 edrive as probably the first car in 2029. Would make some sense to me, doesn't it?