The subsequent-generation electrical Mini will add extra space, and probably extra driving vary, in an upcoming redesign, the model revealed Thursday.

The redesigned Mini Cooper Electrical, because it’s referred to in a press launch from Mini mum or dad BMW, is predicted to reach for the 2025 mannequin 12 months. Along with a substitute for the present Mini Cooper SE, a Cooper E mannequin will likely be included as nicely, with totally different battery packs and energy outputs for each. Mini USA declined to remark to Inexperienced Automotive Studies on the product’s future for the U.S. market.

As the bottom mannequin, the Cooper E produces 181 hp—the identical as the present Cooper SE. The subsequent-generation Cooper SE in flip strikes as much as a 214-hp output.

2025 Mini Cooper prototype

Battery capability is 40.7 kwh for the Cooper E and 54.2 kwh for the Cooper SE. Mini is concentrating on 186 miles to 248 miles of vary, possible as measured on the European WLTP testing cycle. For reference, the 2023 Mini Cooper SE is EPA-rated at 114 miles of vary.

Electrical fashions will as soon as once more be based mostly on the two-door hatchback physique fashion, however BMW claims extra cargo quantity and the retention of 4 seats. Whereas not precisely “mini” in comparison with the unique Nineteen Sixties model, inside area nonetheless stays at a premium within the trendy Mini.

BMW claims the present Mini Cooper SE has turn out to be the model’s hottest mannequin since its 2020 launch. International gross sales elevated 25.5% in 2022 to over 43,000 items, which means one out of each 5 new Minis is electrical, in response to the automaker.

2025 Mini Cooper prototype

The Cooper SE is among the 5 least expensive EVs for the U.S. market, and one of many few true small automobiles supplied broadly in totally fleshed-out EV type, somewhat than as a compliance automotive. The latest announcement the Chevrolet Bolt EV will likely be discontinued additional limits the alternatives in that space. Mini this previous mannequin 12 months hasn’t been capable of make the most affordable model of the SE, nevertheless, on account of provide chain points.

A convertible model of the Cooper SE is now a manufacturing actuality—albeit for Europe, and in small numbers. A complete household of Mini electrical crossovers can also be coming, however they’re going to coexist with gasoline and diesel fashions for years. The model is indicated it plans to shift totally to EVs by the early 2030s.