ELECTRIC DRIVE MASTER: GEN1/GEN5/GEN6 BOUNDARIES

The formal Electric Drive Master opens with 26 rows.

Rules

• front/rear motor maxima are component data;
• system output is a separate BMW-published state;
• gross and usable/net battery energy are separate fields;
• charging architecture is revision-sensitive;
• temporary Sport Boost / Launch Control figures stay conditional;
• inverter-only revisions (such as the 2026 SiC update) receive a separate state even when motor output is unchanged.

Coverage

The first pass spans i3 battery evolution, Gen5 longitudinal/compact eDrive applications, i7 component/system decomposition, 2025 iX inverter/battery revision, 2026 compact-BEV SiC revisions and the Gen6 Neue Klasse iX3 boundary.

The i7 xDrive60 is the canonical anti-arithmetic example: BMW publishes 190 kW front + 230 kW rear component maxima but a 400 kW vehicle system maximum. Therefore component ratings are never summed to fabricate an EDR system row.