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Q: Does the 2026 BMW i5 have any recalls?

NHTSA has posted 1 recall campaign for the 2026 BMW i5, 1 of them rated critical. The most serious on file is 26V096000, covering Electrical System. Check your own VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls; a recall applies to specific build ranges, not every car.

Q: How safe is the 2026 BMW i5?

NHTSA has not published a crash-test rating for the 2026 BMW i5 yet. On the recall record WhichTrim grades it B (85/100), which measures open and severe recalls rather than crash protection.

Q: What is the fuel economy of the 2026 BMW i5?

Across the 9 EPA-rated configurations of the 2026 BMW i5, the longest EPA range is 310 miles on a charge. Figures are the EPA's own, per configuration, and every one is listed above.

Q: What do owners complain about on the 2026 BMW i5?

Owners have filed 2 complaints with NHTSA about the 2026 BMW i5, most often about service brakes, electrical system, vehicle speed control. Of those, 2 involved a crash. Complaints are unverified owner reports, so treat the pattern as a signal and the individual report as an anecdote.

Q: Are there service bulletins for the 2026 BMW i5?

The manufacturer has filed 2 service bulletins and related communications with NHTSA for the 2026 BMW i5, most often covering electrical system, power train. The most recent is dated 2026-08-31. A bulletin is not a recall: it is the repair procedure a manufacturer sends its dealers for a condition it knows about, and the work is not automatically paid for. It is still worth knowing — if the symptom matches, quoting the bulletin number at the service desk can save a diagnosis. The document numbers and summaries are listed above.

Electric

Compact Cars
9 EPA-rated configurations
Data refreshed 2026-10-26

Safety Signal

85 / 100 from the NHTSA recall record

Recalls1 critical 1

Complaints2 crash reported 2

Crash ratingnot rated by NHTSA —

EV rangebest configuration, EPA 310 mi

2027 2026 2025 2024

The 2026 BMW i5 is sold in the U.S. as an electric compact sedan with 9 EPA-rated configurations. Its longest-range version, the i5 eDrive40 Sedan (19 inch Wheels), is EPA-rated at 310 miles with 110 MPGe combined efficiency. NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for this model year, 1 rated critical, which gives it a Safety Signal grade of B. Owners have filed 2 complaints, most often about the service brakes.

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Trims & pricing

Source: manufacturer press kitCompare a trim →

Trim	Powertrain	Drive	MSRP	HP	Torque	MPG comb	Seats
i5 eDrive40	Electric	RWD	—	335 hp	295 lb-ft	110 MPGe	5
i5 xDrive40	Electric	AWD	—	389 hp	435 lb-ft	98 MPGe	5

MSRP excludes destination. Open a trim for the complete spec sheet and standard/optional equipment. Have the car in front of you? Decode its VIN to see which of these trims it is and what it was priced at.

Specs & fuel economy

Source: EPA fueleconomy.gov

Configuration	Powertrain	Drive	Engine / motor	City	Hwy	Comb	Range	kWh/100mi	Charge (240V)	Annual fuel*
i5 eDrive40 Sedan (19 inch Wheels)	Electric	RWD	250 kW EESM	114	106	110 MPGe	310 mi	30.6	8 h	$700
i5 eDrive40 Sedan (20 inch Wheels)	Electric	RWD	250 kW EESM	110	102	106 MPGe	300 mi	31.7	8 h	$700
i5 M60 xDrive Sedan (19 inch Wheels)	Electric	AWD	192 and 250 kW EESM	100	98	99 MPGe	277 mi	34.1	8 h	$750
i5 eDrive40 Sedan (21 inch Wheels)	Electric	RWD	250 kW EESM	102	93	98 MPGe	278 mi	34.5	8 h	$800
i5 xDrive40 Sedan (19 inch Wheels)	Electric	AWD	190 and 230 kW EESM	99	97	98 MPGe	278 mi	34.4	8 h	$750
i5 xDrive40 Sedan (20 inch Wheels)	Electric	AWD	190 and 230 kW EESM	97	94	96 MPGe	272 mi	35.2	8 h	$800
i5 M60 xDrive Sedan (20 inch Wheels)	Electric	AWD	192 and 250 kW EESM	96	92	94 MPGe	266 mi	35.8	8 h	$800
i5 M60 xDrive Sedan (21 inch Wheels)	Electric	AWD	192 and 250 kW EESM	92	89	91 MPGe	259 mi	37.1	8 h	$850
i5 xDrive40 Sedan (21 inch Wheels)	Electric	AWD	190 and 230 kW EESM	92	88	91 MPGe	259 mi	37.2	8 h	$850

*EPA estimate at 15,000 miles/year at EPA reference fuel and electricity prices. fueleconomy.gov record ids: 49613, 49614, 50194, 49615, 49616, 49617, 50195, 50196, 49618.

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Recalls (1)

Source: NHTSA recall database

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Electrical System

58,713 vehicles 71% reported repaired

Problem BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2025 M5 Sportswagon, 2025-2026 M5, 2024-2025 750e xDrive, 2025-2026 550e xDrive, 2023-2025 I7, 2023-2025 7 Series, 2024-2026 i5, and 5 Series vehicles. The electrical wiring harness for the air conditioning system may become damaged during replacement of the cabin air filter. Risk A damaged wiring harness can short-circuit, increasing the risk of a fire. Fix Dealers will inspect and replace the air conditioning system’s electrical wiring harness and add a retaining strap/bracket to the harness, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 16, 2026. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning April 13, 2026.

Filed with NHTSADefect report PDF Owner letter PDF Remedy instructions PDF

NHTSA campaign 26V096000 reported Feb 19, 2026 BMW of North America, LLC the full filing, and every vehicle covered →

These are vehicle campaigns — the ones the automaker filed against this model. NHTSA also records equipment recalls, filed by a parts maker against a component (a tyre, a child seat, an aftermarket part), and those are not listed here or counted above. nhtsa.gov/recalls shows both for a VIN.

Whether any of this applies to one specific i5

A campaign covers a build range, not a model year, so two identical-looking cars from 2026 can differ. Both of these check a VIN against the manufacturer’s own list, free, in about ten seconds. BMW publishes its own lookup because federal rule 49 CFR 573.15 requires it to, and to keep it current to within seven days.

NHTSA VIN check →BMW’s own VIN lookup →

Hear about a recall before the letter does

The manufacturer’s letter is the last step of a recall: it has up to 60 days after filing to mail owners, at the address on the registration. We email you the day NHTSA posts a recall on the 2026 BMW i5, with what to do next. Nothing else, ever — no newsletter, no marketing, one-click unsubscribe in every message.

Owner complaints

Source: NHTSA complaint database

2complaints filed

2 involved a crash · 0 a fire · 0 injuries · 0 deaths reported

4.7 per 10,000 built · BMW reported 4,214 i5 built (its Early Warning production report to NHTSA)

Filed per year: 2026: 2

Most-cited components

Service Brakes 2

Electrical System 1

Vehicle Speed Control 1

Forward Collision Avoidance 1

In owners' own words

Filed with NHTSA by the people who own these cars, one per problem area. Quoted as written, with anything identifying removed.

The contact owns a 2026 BMW I5 Xdrive40. The contact stated that while his wife traveled at approximately 2 MPH and applied the brakes to park, the vehicle accelerated unexpectedly and struck the vehicle ahead. No visual or audible alert was provided by the Forward Collision Warning system. The contact stated the failure recurred.

Service Brakes at 7,500 miles Oct 19, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11772084

While executing a manual parking maneuver (< 5 mph) in "B Mode" (one-pedal regenerative driving mode, where easing off the accelerator initiates vehicle deceleration), the instrument cluster displayed a "Parking assistance malfunction" warning message.

Electrical System Oct 16, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11771582

Complaint counts are raw owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects, and scale with how many were sold. Use them to spot patterns, not to rank.

Crash ratings

Source: NHTSA NCAP

NHTSA has not published 5-Star crash ratings for this model year.

Service bulletins & campaigns

Source: NHTSA manufacturer communications

Communicationsfiled with NHTSA 2

Most recentmanufacturer date 2026-08-31

Kindsas classified by NHTSA 2 service bulletins

Most often about: Electrical System, Power Train.

B610625 Service bulletin
2026-08-31 · Power Train
Check Control message: "You can continue driving. Drivetrain” (00029) is displayed. The following fault code is stored in the CCU fault memory: 224188 – Accelerator pedal module, pedal sensor, sensor 1, sensor 2: Signals implausible. There may or may not be a drivability complaint associated with the fault.
B610324 Service bulletin
2026-04-09 · Electrical System
Gen 5 BEV/PHEV vehicles may set the Combined Charging Unit (CCU) in programming abort due to no communication to the HV charge socket electronics.

A service bulletin is the manufacturer telling its dealers how to diagnose or repair a known condition. It is not a recall, not a finding that the vehicle is defective, and the work is not automatically free — though a bulletin is often what a dealer works from when you describe a symptom, so quoting the document number can save a diagnosis. The count is every communication filed; the list shows the most recent, one entry per campaign, because a single campaign is usually filed as several documents on the same day. The summaries are NHTSA's; the full documents come from the manufacturer.

i5 by model year

all years, side by side →

Year Safety Recalls Complaints

2027 A^* 0 0 328 mi 2026 this page B 1 2 310 mi 2025 D 5 8 295 mi 2024 F 10 21 295 mi

Common questions about the 2026 i5

Source: EPA, NHTSA and manufacturer press kits

Does the 2026 BMW i5 have any recalls?

NHTSA has posted 1 recall campaign for the 2026 BMW i5, 1 of them rated critical. The most serious on file is 26V096000, covering Electrical System. Check your own VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls; a recall applies to specific build ranges, not every car.

How safe is the 2026 BMW i5?

NHTSA has not published a crash-test rating for the 2026 BMW i5 yet. On the recall record WhichTrim grades it B (85/100), which measures open and severe recalls rather than crash protection.

What is the fuel economy of the 2026 BMW i5?

Across the 9 EPA-rated configurations of the 2026 BMW i5, the longest EPA range is 310 miles on a charge. Figures are the EPA's own, per configuration, and every one is listed above.

What do owners complain about on the 2026 BMW i5?

Owners have filed 2 complaints with NHTSA about the 2026 BMW i5, most often about service brakes, electrical system, vehicle speed control. Of those, 2 involved a crash. Complaints are unverified owner reports, so treat the pattern as a signal and the individual report as an anecdote.

Are there service bulletins for the 2026 BMW i5?

The manufacturer has filed 2 service bulletins and related communications with NHTSA for the 2026 BMW i5, most often covering electrical system, power train. The most recent is dated 2026-08-31. A bulletin is not a recall: it is the repair procedure a manufacturer sends its dealers for a condition it knows about, and the work is not automatically paid for. It is still worth knowing — if the symptom matches, quoting the bulletin number at the service desk can save a diagnosis. The document numbers and summaries are listed above.

What we hold, and what an empty row means

Paid vehicle-history reports will not tell you the difference between “nothing happened to this car” and “we never received that record” — both of the big two say as much in their own help pages. Most of what is on this page comes from complete federal registers, so we can tell you which is which, row by row.

Data	Held	Source	What it covers — or what empty means
Fuel economy & configurations	9 configurations	EPA certification records	Every configuration the EPA certified for sale, with its own test figures.
Emission certificates	none	EPA emission certificates	The EPA published no certificate we could match to a configuration on this page.
Recalls	1	NHTSA recall campaigns	A complete federal register: every campaign covering this model year, with severity and advisory flags.
Owner complaints	2	NHTSA complaint database	Also complete, but unverified: these are reports owners filed, not findings. Counts scale with how many were sold.
Crash ratings	none	NHTSA NCAP	NHTSA has not tested this model year. Cars are selected for testing, so untested is not unsafe.
Service bulletins	2	NHTSA manufacturer communications	Everything the manufacturer told its dealers about a defect or malfunction, short of a recall.
Investigations	none	NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation	No defect investigation has been opened.
Driver-assist crash reports	none	NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01	No report has been filed. Only entities named in the order report, and only crashes they hear of — so this is also what an unequipped car, or a manufacturer without telematics, looks like.
Specifications filed with NHTSA	none	NHTSA vPIC, decoded from VIN patterns	We had no VIN pattern to decode for this model year, or the manufacturer filed nothing usable.
Trims, pricing & equipment	2 trims	Manufacturer press kit	Transcribed from the manufacturer's own press material, every value carrying the document it came from.

Rebuilt nightly; this page was generated 2026-10-26. Every figure above is traceable to the source named beside it, and the JSON for this page carries the same values with their identifiers.

Sources & method

Safety Signal starts every model-year at 100 and subtracts points per open NHTSA recall campaign by severity: critical 15 (fire risk, park-outside or do-not-drive advisories), high 8 (brakes, steering, airbags, loss of drive power, structure, battery), moderate 6, minor 3 (software, labels, lighting fixed by an update). The most serious recall counts in full and each further one counts 85% of the one before, because a vehicle sold in millions is recalled more often than a rare one without being more dangerous — and because a flat subtraction bottomed the scale out, scoring a vehicle with 22 recalls within a point of one with six. A ≥ 90, B ≥ 80, C ≥ 70, D ≥ 60, otherwise F. Read it as what it counts: recall campaigns on the federal record, weighted by severity. The damping reduces the sales bias by roughly 40% but does not remove it: like our complaint counts, this is not normalized by how many were sold, so a best-seller still scores somewhat worse than an obscure model with the same real risk. NHTSA crash ratings, do-not-drive and park-outside advisories, and the crash, fire, injury and death counts in owner complaints are reported separately on every page and never blended into the letter — a vehicle can hold five stars and a poor letter at once, and where that happens we say so rather than leave you to notice. Because the scale subtracts from a clean sheet, a model year too new to have been recalled, complained about or bulletined scores full marks on an empty record; we label those grades provisional rather than present them as earned.

EPA figures come from fueleconomy.gov vehicle records. Recalls, complaints, investigations and crash ratings come from NHTSA's public flat files, refreshed nightly. Trim-level specifications and pricing are transcribed from the manufacturer's official press kit; every value carries its source in the data file.

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