Does anyone know where I can find more information about how things are organized under the hood? I have had some car guys asking questions about it, and I just don't know the answers. For other cars, I have seen tear-downs where they take the entire structure out and walk through the motor, inverter, charger, etc. I just can't seem to find anything like that for the SE. TIA!
I'm hoping the great Professor John D. Kelley of Weber State University (see his WeberAuto videos on YouTube) will get ahold of a MINI Cooper SE. Without someone like him, people like me (someone who has exchanged car engines, changed internal engine parts, etc.) are left pondering a big blob of inscrutable mechanisms (and losing motor-cover grommets due to removing the motor cover too often to look at what's underneath):
Not for the Mini specifically but for $10 you can get 24,000 pages of info on the i3 which shares a lot of the drivetrain... https://munrolive.com/support-%2F-store/ols/products/bmw-i3-reports
Thanks! I'd pay that in a second if Munroe did the same for the MINI Cooper SE. I may still pay that in a few minutes after wondering what it says about the i3's motor and drivetrain (sadly, by far the smallest of his PDF files). However, the best would be watching Professor Kelley spinning the actual parts as he assembles them on his bench while he spouts gear ratios, bearing sizes, support structures, design tricks, etc.
Some interesting (and quite old) info about the original i3 motor. The SE is taken from the i3s which has a higher max torque and power, but basically the same. https://archive.org/download/BMWTechnicalTrainingDocuments/ST1403a%20I1%20Complete%20Vehicle/20140404_BMW.pdf
Thanks! I enjoyed reading about the electric-motor technologies BMW considered and found the diagrams and graphs very informative (OK, I didn't understand all the graphs, but they look cool).
