Mini Electric Cooper: first pics
The new 2024 Mini EV hatch undisguised
Triangular rear lights the most noticeable change on 2024 Mini Cooper Electric
► New Mini Cooper Electric revealed
► Early leaked pictures show EV hatch
► Due to launch at IAA in September
This is our first, early look at the new 2024 Mini Cooper electric car – revealed five months ahead of its official launch at the IAA motor show in Munich in September 2023.
The distinctive Mini silhouette is remarkably unchanged, with the floating contrast-colour roof, blacked-out window pillars and clamshell bonnet all continuing in to the fourth generation of Mini.
Perhaps the most distinctive new details are at the front and rear: the new 2024 Mini Cooper is bookended by a mono-panel grille with trad oval headlights and distinctive new, triangular rear lamps with toned-down echoes of the Union flag motif from today’s model.
Although this is the Mini Cooper Electric, as confirmed by the absence of cooling vanes in the front grille and any visible exhaust pipe, the Mini hatchback will again be available as a petrol version.
New 2024 Mini Cooper Electric: petrol and EV versions
The blue car in these early official photographs is badged Mini Cooper S, suggesting that the company is sticking with its tried-and-tested range hierarchy. The small-car brand is falling in line with the BMW mothership, in letting buyers choose any bodystyle in any which powertrain option (in the same way you can choose a BMW 7-series or i7).
The Mini Cooper Electric is our first look at the new Chinese-built EV architecture resulting from BMW’s collaboration with Great Wall. This is a new electric platform that will underpin every new generation of Mini we’ll see in the next three years, as Munich upgrades its entire small-car range.
Petrol versions will be upgraded to follow closely the new look – but will, effectively, continue on today’s hardware to be built at Plant Oxford.
When can I buy the Mini Cooper Electric?
Expect to see the new Mini unveiled in September 2023, with media drives later this year and the first customer cars due in February or March 2024, just in time for the new 24-reg number plates.
After a quiet few years, this is the start of a major product blitz from Mini: the Cooper Electric will be shown at the same time as the new Mini Countryman (also available as petrol or electric, but no longer as a plug-in hybrid) and will go on sale in April/May 2024.
Five-door versions of the Mini hatch will follow, as will Convertibles – again, offered in a variety of powertrain choices.
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