My BMW mobile app updated to show your car’s true carbon footprint

21 July 2025
BMW and Mini drivers can now see the total lifetime carbon emissions of their vehicle, from manufacturing to daily driving, directly on their smartphone.

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  • Spark

If people didn't put so much attention on these numbers.

I have a friend working at the "sustainability" department. And he makes reports on the c02 emissions on every step of the production line, and suppliers.
50% or more is just a guess-timate. So people shouldn't treat these as exact numbers. It can all depend on the person doing the sustainability numbers.
If they only know how imprecise they are.

And there is an easy way to reduce carbon.
Don't buy the car. Don't use it. Don't consume. Don't reproduce. Don't breath. Don't exist if possible.
Problem solved.

  • BMWSoftwareSigh

Good Lord BMW.... Stop wasting time in these "features" that you probably got some intern to "code" into the app and spend the time and money in having your engineers learn how to make your software BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE! Ask anyone with iDrive 8 and 8.5 why can't some BASIC features like climate shortcuts are only in 8.5 but not 8.

BMW makes their cars artificially OBSOLETE!

  • Anonymous

more euro slop, greta style.
in germany it's common to have a set of summer stickies and winter rubbers while doing 200km/h on autobahn.
maybe eu should mandate cars to have less wheels to save the planet.

  • v

WHY WOULD, 12 hours agoWhy would anyone care of that sort of thing? carbon footprint? i'd buy 'em diesel ba... moreBecause within next couple of years you will start receiving much less UBI if you are above co2 quota.

  • WHY WOULD

Why would anyone care of that sort of thing? carbon footprint? i'd buy 'em diesel based if i could

  • barti

So, the fewer people are born, the better for our planet—that's what I understood.
Europe is slowly dying, but China and India are multiplying like rabbits.

  • Anonymous

So I buy a car, drive it around, and then suddenly I should care about CO2 emissions? As if it is my fault that the car was produced. And how do interpret the numbers, how do I know what is much and what not? In which way is this information even useful to my life? I made a choice to buy a car, the question of environmental bla bla bla is not something I can answer. Instead of shifting responsibility for the CO2 emissions to the customers, why don't corporations try to reduce them on their own if they consider it to be important?

  • Aki

It would be great to have that feature in EVs, starting with CO2 produced while making it