2022 BMW 330e xDrive plug-in hybrid allows you to choose your charging amperage

Our long-term 2022 BMW 330e xDrive plug-in hybrid has a setting within its menus for selecting a specific charging amperage. This is great if you want to use the Level 1 mobile charger to charge at maximum speed without tripping your circuit breaker. Many circuits have 10- or 15-amp breakers that will trip if you try to charge at too high of an amperage. Not all EVs or plug-in hybrids have an in-car setting to allow you to change that, but the 330e lets you pick anything from 6 to 16 amps to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Video Transcript

JOHN SNYDER: Hello, everyone. John Snyder with Autoblog here. And I'm sitting inside our long-term 2022 BMW 330e plug-in hybrid. Now this car has in-car settings for charging amperage, which is kind of nice. So my situation, I have this plugged into the mobile charger from my garage, a 15-amp circuit. And a lot of vehicles will trip that circuit, even if they're below 15 amps. It's just sort of a finicky circuit.