2016 BMW X5 xDrive40e Review

 

While BMW has made a few diesels available here stateside, they’ve mostly resisted that impulse. Instead, they’re looking further down the road with hybrids and plug-ins. And now that they’ve brought that strategy to the popular X5 utility, it’s time for us to plug-in and check out its advanced functionality.

There’s nothing exotic about the hardware, just all the hybrid basics including a 9.2-kWh lithium-ion battery, onboard charger, and regenerative braking; along with standard all-wheel-drive, and an 8-speed automatic transmission.

Of course they are all tied to a gasoline-fed engine, in this case BMW’s TwinPower turbo 2.0-liter I4; outputting 240-horsepower and 260 lb-ft. of torque on its own. Add in electric boost, and system total is 308-horsepower.