OFFICIAL RELEASE: BMW 5G eSIM, Digital Key Plus and eDrive Launched within the US
With the launch of the all-new, all-electric BMW iX and i4 come thrilling, superior know-how options that take the interplay between driver and automobile additional into the digital future. And drivers of BMW Plug-in Hybrid Electrical Autos in three main California cities will profit from computerized activation of all-electric driving.
Private eSIM
The BMW iX and i4 are the primary BMWs with accessible 5G help by way of Private eSIM. An eSIM, or ‘embedded SIM’ is a SIM card constructed into in a cell gadget – cellular phone, pill, smartwatch – that permits connectivity to a mobile community with no bodily, detachable SIM card. Private eSIM permits a buyer so as to add their BMW iX or i4 to their current cell phone plan, thus benefiting from the automobile’s 5G antenna and enabling an in-car WiFi hotspot. As many as ten units may be linked to the automobile’s WiFi hotspot concurrently, offering customers with high-speed web entry for cell workplace work or video streaming in full HD high quality.
In help of BMW Private eSIM, T-Cell is introducing Magenta Drive for BMW. An current T-Cell postpaid plan may be prolonged with T-Cell Magenta Drive to activate the Private eSIM within the automobile. Private eSIM is linked to the consumer’s BMW ID, not the automobile, so it may be transferred to different BMW autos which have Private eSIM performance. The eSIM is configured mechanically when customers check in with their BMW ID and is obtainable instantly.
Set-up is accomplished seamlessly by way of the My BMW app, and as soon as the automobile has been added to the plan the client’s telephone doesn’t should be within the automobile to make and obtain calls utilizing their present cellular phone quantity.
Even when prospects select to not add their automobile to their cell phone plan, autos outfitted with Private eSIM performance nonetheless profit from the low latency and excessive bandwidth of a 5G connection when knowledge is exchanged between the BMW Cloud and the automobile. For instance, Distant Software program Upgrades may be downloaded to the automobile in a fraction of the traditional time required. Private eSIM is obtainable as a part of the Premium Package deal on iX xDrive50 and customary on iX M60.
Digital Key Plus
The BMW iX can even introduce BMW Digital Key Plus, the most recent technology of the smartphone-based BMW Digital Key. Digital Key Plus makes use of safe, ultra-wideband know-how that permits prospects to make use of their smartphone to lock, unlock, and begin their autos with out having to take the telephone out of their pocket or bag. With Digital Key Plus, the proprietor can arrange a grasp key throughout the My BMW app on their telephone, which is able to allow prospects utilizing iPhone to grant automobile entry to as much as 5 different customers. Mother and father will then have the ability to handle younger drivers with automobile entry controls, which might limit prime velocity, engine energy, and most radio quantity and make sure that the Dynamic Stability Management and Clever Security options on autos so outfitted can’t be deactivated.
eDrive Zones
BMW eDrive Zones is an modern digital service designed to ease drivers of plug-in hybrid autos’ entry into metropolis areas designated as zero-emissions zones. When it enters considered one of these zones, a BMW Plug-in Hybrid Electrical Automobile will change to fully-electric driving mode mechanically (offered the battery is sufficiently charged). The change is triggered by geofencing know-how and GPS, and the motive force is suggested of entry right into a zero-emissions zone and the change to eDrive by way of the automobile’s iDrive display. BMW eDrive Zones are introduced in the principle navigation map and in a preview map within the eDrive Zone app menu. The characteristic is being piloted in three cities in California: Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose. BMW eDrive Zones might be mechanically activated in suitable autos.
