The subsequent-generation electrical Mini will add extra space, and doubtlessly extra driving vary, in an upcoming redesign, the model revealed Thursday.
The redesigned Mini Cooper Electrical, because it’s referred to in a press launch from Mini father or mother BMW, is anticipated to reach for the 2025 mannequin yr. Along with a alternative for the present Mini Cooper SE, a Cooper E mannequin will likely be included as effectively, with completely different battery packs and energy outputs for each. Mini USA declined to remark to Inexperienced Automobile Studies on the product’s future for the U.S. market.
As the bottom mannequin, the Cooper E produces 181 hp—the identical as the present Cooper SE. The subsequent-generation Cooper SE in flip strikes as much as a 214-hp output.
2025 Mini Cooper prototype
Battery capability is 40.7 kwh for the Cooper E and 54.2 kwh for the Cooper SE. Mini is concentrating on 186 miles to 248 miles of vary, seemingly as measured on the European WLTP testing cycle. For reference, the 2023 Mini Cooper SE is EPA-rated at 114 miles of vary.
Electrical fashions will as soon as once more be based mostly on the two-door hatchback physique type, however BMW claims extra cargo quantity and the retention of 4 seats. Whereas not precisely “mini” in comparison with the unique Nineteen Sixties model, inside area nonetheless stays at a premium within the trendy Mini.
BMW claims the present Mini Cooper SE has change into the model’s hottest mannequin since its 2020 launch. World gross sales elevated 25.5% in 2022 to over 43,000 models, that means one out of each 5 new Minis is electrical, in accordance with the automaker.
2025 Mini Cooper prototype
The Cooper SE is likely one of the 5 most cost-effective EVs for the U.S. market, and one of many few true small automobiles provided broadly in absolutely fleshed-out EV kind, reasonably than as a compliance automobile. The latest announcement the Chevrolet Bolt EV will likely be discontinued additional limits the alternatives in that space. Mini this previous mannequin yr hasn’t been in a position to make the most cost effective model of the SE, nonetheless, attributable to provide chain points.
A convertible model of the Cooper SE is now a manufacturing actuality—albeit for Europe, and in small numbers. An entire household of Mini electrical crossovers can also be coming, however they’re going to coexist with fuel and diesel fashions for years. The model is indicated it plans to shift completely to EVs by the early 2030s.
