BMW and MINI Apps Now Track Your Personal Carbon Footprint

BMW is including a brand new layer of transparency to its digital instruments. Beginning this month, the My BMW App and MINI App will give drivers entry to private carbon footprint information—breaking it down into emissions from each driving and car manufacturing.

In keeping with BMW, this is likely one of the most requested areas of perception amongst customers. “The data in My Journeys is likely one of the hottest options within the app,” says Dirk Wiedmann, Senior Vice President Gross sales Steering and Technique, Digitalization. “We are actually increasing this with carbon footprint calculation.”

What the App Now Reveals

The replace brings emissions monitoring to a wider vary of BMW and MINI fashions throughout a number of European nations. The characteristic is designed to work with all sorts of drivetrains: combustion, plug-in hybrid, and totally electrical.

The app calculates emissions utilizing two fundamental information factors:

1. Driving emissions – Based mostly on real-world driving information recorded within the “My Journeys” part. For petrol and diesel fashions, the app calculates CO₂ output primarily based on gas consumption. For EVs, it makes use of country-specific power combine information from the Worldwide Vitality Company (IEA) to estimate the emissions linked to electrical energy use. It additionally reveals how the numbers would change if inexperienced power had been used as a substitute.
2. Manufacturing emissions – This consists of emissions from uncooked materials sourcing, logistics, and car meeting. BMW compiles these figures utilizing licensed lifecycle assessments from TÜV Rheinland, obtainable on the BMW Group web site as downloadable Car Footprint Stories.

Electrical Car Comparability Device Nonetheless Obtainable

For these nonetheless driving combustion fashions, the app additionally features a software to simulate life with an electrical BMW. After monitoring a minimum of 200 journeys totaling over 2,000 km, the app estimates what number of of these journeys might have been accomplished on a single cost in a particular EV mannequin. It additionally reveals close by charging stations primarily based on incessantly visited locations. Over 100,000 individuals had used this characteristic by Could 2025.

The place It’s Rolling Out

The non-public carbon footprint characteristic can be obtainable first in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Appropriate fashions embrace the most recent BMW 1 Series, 2 Sequence, X2, X3, 5 Sequence (and Touring), M5, iX, and MINI Cooper, Cooper C, Aceman, and Countryman—offered they’ve a TÜV-certified footprint obtainable.