The Mini Electric is a 3-door hatchback / 2-door convertible (Limited 999 Units) from Mini, built from 2019 to 2024, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market.
Where it came from
The Mini Electric (marketed as the Mini Cooper SE in all markets outside the United Kingdom) is a battery electric version of the third generation Mini Hatch that was launched in 2020 by German automaker BMW under the Mini marque. The drivetrain utilises technology developed for the earlier BMW i3.
Under the skin
The record carries the shape — a 3-door hatchback / 2-door convertible (Limited 999 Units) — and the layout: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The engine, output and weight have not yet reached the open record, and MotorJury does not guess at them.
In context
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Mini E; its successor was the Mini Cooper Electric; assembly was at Cowley, Oxfordshire. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Model Y, the Tesla Model 3 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Mini catalogue sit the MINI Beachcomber and the Mini (3rd Generation).
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