If there isn't ample public charging infrastructure support, users of electric cars can face range anxiety that the battery will run out of power and they will be stranded on the road.
"But with the new i4, "range anxiety' can be a thing of the past," Vikram Pawah, President, BMW Group India, told FE. "At 590km, it is India's longest-range electric car. It is also [the country's first electric mid-size sedan."
This story is from the May 27, 2022 edition of Financial Express Mumbai.
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