2023 Mini Cooper SE First Drive Review: An Electric Hatchback

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Electrification suits the Mini brand well and the SE is a decent offering, but it’ll need to make dedicated EVs in order for its vehicles to be truly competitive.

when building its SE EV. Although it no doubt would have been better to start from a dedicated electric platform, we appreciate that Mini set out to lend some sportiness to its first-ever mainstream consumer EV., we enjoyed its entertaining driving dynamics and model-specific styling cues, but we also found it to be lacking in other areas.

While flinging the electric Mini hatchback along some country roads, we found it to be lively and tossable. Its steering is heavy and somewhat numb, but it's accurate enough and allowed us to explore the limits of the Cooper SE's communicative chassis. The default regenerative braking setting is aggressive but highly predictable and easy to get used to.

When we jumped in our SE test car at the staging area of the BMW Test Fest event, it showed 55 percent charge when we took off. A subsequent hill climb sapped a load of electrons from the SE's small 32.6-kWh battery.

 

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Great car. It’s so fun as a daily driver. Range isn’t an issue for day-to-day situations, as long as you have a road trip option. 🚗💨 ⚡️

This is a joke barely over 100 miles of range please scrap this thing now.

Why not make the E-Mini look like a standard Mini - that daft bit of plastic where the grill would be could of been designed to mimic a grill, & the E-Mini Wheels look pathetic why not use standard Mini wheel

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