Every BMW X4 ever built rolled out of Spartanburg, South Carolina, powered by gasoline or diesel. That era is over. The next X4 will be electric-only, built in Hungary, and carry the iX4 name under the internal code NA7.
BMW expects to reveal it this September or October, with production beginning in November at its Debrecen plant. There is no combustion successor. BMW confirmed the G02 generation was the last to burn fuel.
Gas production ended earlier in 2025, diesel wrapped that November. The X4 nameplate, born as a niche coupe-SUV for buyers willing to sacrifice cargo space for a roofline, now belongs entirely to the Neue Klasse electric platform.
Two variants will launch the range: a 40 xDrive and a 50 xDrive. Both arrive in November. An M60 xDrive performance model is expected sometime in 2027, with a quad-motor X4 M reportedly coded ZA7 and rumored further down the pipeline.
The mechanical DNA mirrors the iX3 already in production at Debrecen: 800-volt architecture, DC fast charging up to 400 kW, a 108.7 kWh battery pack, and roughly 463 horsepower with 473 lb-ft of torque in the dual-motor 50 xDrive configuration. That’s good for a sub-five-second sprint to 60 mph, at least based on what the iX3 delivers.
The production geography tells its own story. Spartanburg, which built every X4 since the nameplate launched in 2014, is out of the picture entirely. So is BMW’s plant in San Luis PotosÃ, Mexico.
Debrecen gets everything, and the factory is reportedly adding a third shift just to handle iX3 demand before the iX4 even joins the line. BMW is banking heavily on a plant that only recently came online to carry two critical Neue Klasse models simultaneously.
That confidence is notable given the competitive landscape. The Tesla Model Y has owned the electric coupe-crossover conversation for years. Audi’s Q6 Sportback e-tron is already on sale.
Both had significant head starts in convincing buyers that a sloped-roof electric SUV is worth the compromises. BMW is arriving late and asking the Neue Klasse platform’s charging speed and range numbers to close the gap.
The quiet death of the combustion X4 also reveals something about BMW’s internal math. The X2, which grew substantially in its latest generation, has apparently absorbed the market space the old gas-powered X4 occupied. Rather than build both a combustion and electric version side by side, as BMW has done with the 5 Series and i5 or the X1 and iX1, the company decided the X4’s future was singular.
One drivetrain. One factory. No hedging.
It’s a clean break from a company that has spent years insisting it would let customers choose their powertrain. For the 3 Series, the 5 Series, and the X3, that remains true, for now. But the X4 is the first BMW nameplate to go from combustion-only to electric-only in a single generation leap, skipping the hybrid transition entirely.
Whether that bet pays off depends on whether enough buyers still care about the X4’s particular flavor of form-over-function. Two generations of the combustion car never set sales charts on fire. BMW is gambling that electrification, not the nameplate, is the draw.
If Debrecen is already adding shifts before the first iX4 rolls off the line, someone in Munich clearly believes the numbers will come. The rest of us will find out this fall.
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