The BMW iX has a spacious interior with a focus on tech and premium materials. It retains some of BMW’s key features like a central control panel with physical buttons and dial to navigate the multimedia menus, but a long, curved display holds the multimedia touchscreen and driver display.

Materials like leather, finished metals and crystal adorn the interior and a large sunroof helps light the cabin up.

Passengers in all seats are treated to plenty of legroom, even the rear middle passenger.

Thanks to its 94.8kwh battery the BMW iX xDrive45 has a driving range of up to 522km despite its heavy kerb weight. Its claimed energy use is 20.0kWh/100km.

The BMW iX has a standard five-seat layout with electrically adjustable front seats with heating and a spacious rear bench seat for three.

An option pack is available to introduce ventilation to the front seats and heating to the rear.

The BMW iX now features an M Sport package as standard, so there’s M trim inside like the steering wheel, the M seats and silver design highlights.

Adaptive LED headlights and the BMW 'Iconic Glow' grille surround has also been added.

There’s also now a panoramic glass roof, plus a heated steering wheel and a tyre pressure monitor.

Aside from that, the wireless phone charging, wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, 18-speaker surround sound by Harman Kardon, four-zone climate control and heated front seats all carry over from before.

BMW says the iX xDrive45 M Sport is able to hit 100km/h from a standstill in 5.1 seconds, with its claimed top speed a tidy 200km/h.

The BMW iX xDrive45 has a dual-motor electric set-up with all-wheel drive. Power and torque total 300kW and 700Nm, up from the 240kW and 630Nm on offer in the outgoing xDrive40.