The following-generation electrical Mini will add more room, 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 dad or mum BMW, is predicted to reach for the 2025 mannequin 12 months. Along with a alternative for the present Mini Cooper SE, a Cooper E mannequin will likely be included as properly, with completely different battery packs and energy outputs for each. Mini USA declined to remark to Inexperienced Automotive Stories 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 following-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 model, however BMW claims extra cargo quantity and the retention of 4 seats. Whereas not precisely “mini” in comparison with the unique Sixties model, inside area nonetheless stays at a premium within the fashionable Mini.
BMW claims the present Mini Cooper SE has turn out to be the model’s hottest mannequin since its 2020 launch. International gross sales elevated 25.5% in 2022 to over 43,000 items, which means one out of each 5 new Minis is electrical, in line 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 type, relatively 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 12 months hasn’t been capable of make the most affordable 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 be coming, however they’re going to coexist with fuel and diesel fashions for years. The model is indicated it plans to shift fully to EVs by the early 2030s.