The 77kWh battery has a maximum charging speed of 175kWs, while the 86kWh version ramps that up to 200kWs, so a 10 to 80 per cent charging window means top-up times using a suitably rapid charger take 28 minutes and 26 minutes, respectively. Utilising a more cost-effective 7kW home wallbox charger, it’ll take just over 12 hours to fully recharge the 77kWh battery, while the 86kWh takes just under 14 hours.

During our electric car charging speed test of an ID.7 Tourer Pro S, we found it could reach its advertised 200kW peak charging speed, and maintain that speed until the battery got to 50 per cent state of charge. More impressively, the 20 to 80 per cent top-up charge was faster than advertised, at just 21 minutes. If you need maximum range for a long trip, the ID.7 is capable of handling the 80 to 100 per cent in 16 minutes, or a quarter of the time it took a pre-facelift Tesla Model Y and a Peugeot E-3008, both of which were put through the same test. 

That shows that the ID.7 Tourer is well-suited to longer trips that involve stopping for a quick charge, and you can help even further by manually pre-conditioning the battery ahead of a charging stop, which means that you should reach peak charging speed much quicker than if you just plugged the car in to a rapid charger. Of course, the car will automatically precondition the battery if the route has been plotted into its sat-nav system, and it deems you’ll need to stop partway through your journey at a charger en route.

Insurance groups

In terms of insurance, both the Pro and Pro S versions of the ID.7 Tourer are in group 38, while the GTX Plus is in group 41, making it the most expensive model in the range to provide cover for. All versions of the ID.7 Tourer are in a lower group rating than the BMW i5 Tourer, though, which starts in group 43.

Tax

Company car drivers will benefit from lower Benefit-in-Kind (BiK) tax rates compared with traditional petrol, diesel or even hybrid-powered cars such as the Volkswagen Passat, because of the lack of tailpipe emissions. The ID.7 is still an expensive car, so that will have a bearing on your monthly fee. The current BiK rate is three per cent, but it will rise to four per cent for the ‘26 to ’27 tax year, and five per cent from ‘27 to ‘28.