{"id":394739,"date":"2026-04-12T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394739\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:10:13","slug":"motoring-review-diesel-doubters-might-be-converted-by-this-ev-with-long-range-performance-and-ultra-fast-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394739\/","title":{"rendered":"Motoring review: \u2018Diesel doubters\u2019 might be converted by this EV with long-range performance and ultra-fast charging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWith a composed and agile driving feel on the road and a retreat-like interior, this might win over even the EV skeptics\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geraldine Herbert test drives the BMW iX3 50 xDrive M Sport Pro. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/95756091-35ea-46a7-8c94-cc8f0dd03cd1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Geraldine Herbert test drives the BMW iX3 50 xDrive M Sport Pro. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I have lost count of the number of times some diesel diehard has responded to me on social media, usually with the certainty of a man explaining interest rates on a barstool, with an emphatic declaration that he will \u201cnever drive an EV until it can do 800km and charge as fast as a diesel\u201d. Pointing out that almost nobody actually drives 800km without stopping is dismissed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Fast-forward to today, and the good news is that BMW has finally produced a car with the heroic, bladder-defying motorway warrior in mind: the new iX3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a composed and agile driving feel on the road and a retreat-like interior, this might win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18041,72,7781,61,60,6361],"class_list":{"0":"post-394739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bmw","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-geraldine-herbert","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-life-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}