Newshot New-Generation BMW iX4 Officially Enters Production: WLTP Range Up to 828 km, Launching Next March
IT Home, November 15 — The BMW iX4 has officially entered production at the Debrecen plant in Hungary and will go on sale in March 2027. This is the second Neue Klasse model produced at the plant, following the iX3.
Among them, the longer-range iX4 50 xDrive, according to the WLTP test standard, has a maximum range of up to 828 km, surpassing the iX3's performance. Internally codenamed NA7, the iX4 continues BMW X4's design approach, combining an SUV body with a downward-sloping fastback roof, and adopts the Neue Klasse model technical platform.
The iX4 will launch in two versions in March 2027, and both versions have already begun rolling off the production line. The 40 xDrive starts at £60,170 on the road (approximately 532,000 yuan at current exchange rates), the 50 xDrive starts at £66,075 (approximately 584,000 yuan at current exchange rates); pricing for the M60 xDrive has not yet been announced.
The iX4 50 xDrive has a maximum WLTP range of 828 km, a peak charging power of 400 kW, and can add up to 387 km of range in 10 minutes of charging. The iX4 40 xDrive has a maximum WLTP range of 638 km.
In addition, the higher-positioned iX4 M60 xDrive will also be launched soon, likewise produced at the Debrecen plant.
Compared with the iX3 50 xDrive, the iX4 is slightly superior in both range and charging speed. The iX3's maximum WLTP range is 805 km, and with the same 400 kW peak charging power, it can add up to 372 km of range in 10 minutes of charging.
BMW did not explain why there is this gap between the two models, but the iX4's lower roof design can reduce aerodynamic drag while driving, which may be one of the reasons.
Both launch models are equipped with BMW's sixth-generation eDrive electric drive system, featuring cylindrical battery cells and an 800-volt high-voltage electrical architecture. The electric motors are produced at BMW's plant in Steyr, Austria, which has previously supplied electric motors for the iX3 produced at the Debrecen plant.
As the iX4 enters production, the Debrecen plant's production scale is expanding rapidly. Previously, the iX3's production ramp-up speed here set a record for a new BMW Group plant: less than a year after production began, the plant produced its 50,000th vehicle in July of this year.
A few weeks later, BMW added a third shift to the plant and has achieved continuous 24-hour production since September of this year.
Within one year of the iX3's global debut, orders in the European market have exceeded 100,000 units, and it was named the 2026 World Car of the Year.
Hans-Peter Kemser, President and CEO of BMW Group's Debrecen plant, said that the official start of production of the iX4 is an "important new chapter" in the history of the Debrecen plant. He also noted that the plant's position in BMW's electric vehicle production system has been further enhanced, and that the workforce is still expanding, with personnel training advancing in parallel with capacity expansion.
Debrecen is a full-capability vehicle plant with a press shop, body shop, paint shop and assembly shop, dedicated to producing pure electric vehicles. The plant can also complete high-voltage battery pack assembly on site, so the iX4's battery pack can be directly assembled with the body without being transported elsewhere.
Following BMW's iFACTORY production philosophy, the entire plant was planned digitally from the outset. The plant officially began production in September 2025 and is BMW's first new vehicle plant built in Europe in more than 20 years.
BMW has invested more than 2 billion euros in this 400-hectare plant (IT Home note: approximately 14.768 billion yuan at current exchange rates), with a planned annual capacity of about 150,000 vehicles. The Debrecen plant does not use fossil fuels and is powered entirely by renewable electricity.
Solar panels on the site can meet about a quarter of the plant's annual electricity demand. Excess solar power is stored in a thermal storage system with a volume of 1,800 cubic meters and a storage capacity of 130 MWh.
Currently, BMW has not announced how the Debrecen plant's annual capacity of 150,000 vehicles will be allocated between the iX3 and iX4. And with the iX4 M60 xDrive planned to start production in March 2027, the plant's capacity allocation will change again.
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