[shark715]

I never heard of that feature. Very cool.

We took a similar distance trip (from New Jersey to Massachusetts, coincidentally) at Thanksgiving but never saw that message. I assume it's because we made a fuel stop in each direction, and never quite reached the three hour mark without shutting off the engine for a few minutes.

Our pretty much fully loaded 2011 X5 does not seem to have that feature. We've gone well over 4 hours on long trips between stops and never encountered it.