Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The BMW Group is showcasing developments from BMW ConnectedDrive at the ITS World Congress this week in Vienna under the slogan “BMW Urban Mobility”. This is empowering the BMW Group to support mobility sustainably and tailored to individual needs. Earlier post.) Adaptive navigation and strategic routing.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The BMW Group has delivered more than 100,000 electrified vehicles to customers worldwide in 2017, as promised at the beginning of the year. The BMW Group selected this glowing symbol to represent the technological change taking place in mobility. —Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Audi has just unveiled its all-electric A2 Concept vehicle at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. Placed somewhere between its two-seat electric Urban Concept which we saw yesterday and its A3 hatchback, the four-seat concept is a direct competitor to BMW’s much-anticipated 2014 i3 electric car.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

BMW is going to great lengths to show that electric cars can look good as well as just being green, revealing today its new Vision ConnectedDrive zero-emission roadster concept ahead of its world debut next month at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 2, 2011

BMW are developing some of the world's most anticipated electric cars at the moment with the i3 and i8 spearheading the launch of BMW's 'i' brand. The 1-Series based ActiveE is the first pure electric car to eminate from Bavaria since the MINI E, and the production car makes its world debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 3, 2013

All eyes have been on BMW over the past few weeks as it launched the 2014 i3 electric car, two years after the concept first debuted at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. So where does BMW go from here? Well, yes--with the BMW i8 sports car and mooted i5 on the way--but fuel cells are still on the German.'

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Engineers at BMW Group Research and Technology are developing advanced automated driver assistance systems for the highway. Researchers have equipped a BMW 5 sedan with intelligent software as well as vision assistance and environment detection systems. Precursors and basis: BMW TrackTrainer and the Emergency Stop Assistant.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

BMW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) signed binding agreements aimed at long-term collaboration between the two companies for the joint development of a hydrogen fuel cell system; joint development of architecture and components for a sports vehicle; and joint research and development of lightweight technologies. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Continental and the BMW Group are pooling their development capacities to define the long-term prerequisites for series introduction of highly automated driving on European freeways. The joint research project with BMW Group addresses the enormous need for the kind of R&D required to realize the vision of automated driving.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

BMW will stage the world premiere of the BMW ActiveE at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show. Based on the current BMW 1 Series Coupé, the BMW ActiveE is the second electric test vehicle to be created by the BMW Group. The company had unveiled the Concept ActiveE at the North American International Auto Show in 2010.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 25, 2013

BMW''s long-awaited i3 electric car and range-extended electric car aren''t officially unveiled until next Monday--but leaked images finally reveal the production car''s form.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 6, 2011

BMW might be working hard to encourage drivers to become electronauts in its Active E electric car trials due to start in the next few months, but the German automaker has already started to drip-feed details of its 2014 i3 electric car to the press.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

BMW of North America and Coulomb Technologies announced that drivers of the BMW ActiveE all-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will be able to take advantage of the expansion of the ChargePoint Network into the Boston Metro area. The BMW ActiveE is the BMW Group’s next step towards a mass-produced electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The grant is an add-on to the $8 million award from the DOE in August 2011 for converting thermoelectric heat to power for passenger cars ( earlier post ) and extends the technology to heavy military vehicles. The TEG developed in that project provided a proof-of-concept for stack-arranged TE engines in a cylindrical form factor.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 14, 2012

When it debuted at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, the original MINI Rocketman Concept was quickly embraced for its very MINI mini-ness. It was also speculated to be on its way to production--a rumor that was quickly shot down by BMW, MINI's parent brand.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 4, 2011

The new BMW Concept M5, which will make its public debut at Auto Shanghai 2011, manages to reduce fuel consumption by at least 25 per cent. The vehicle features a new V8 with M twin turbo technology and boasts a significantly increased output level. Its engine is coupled with a seven-speed M double clutch transmission [.].

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Green Cars News

JULY 30, 2013

The i3-BMW’s first fully electric car-it’s a car we’ve been eagerly anticipating since it first appeared as a concept vehicle at the Frankfurt Auto Show back in 2011. And now it is finally here; receiving its grand unveiling in three world megacities simultaneously, I was lucky enough to catch it [.].

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2010

BMW's chief executive officer, Norbert Reithofer, has confirmed that the company's ActiveHybrid 5 sedan will go on sale as early as next year. Reithofer told shareholders yesterday at BMW's annual meeting that the car it showed at the Geneva Motor Show in March as the BMW Concept 5-Series ActiveHybrid will be built.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Scientists from the Technische Universität München (TUM) are collaborating with engineers from BMW to develop the means to replace copper with aluminum as a conductor in on-board power systems. The results are to be incorporated in the TUM electro vehicle MUTE, which will be presented at the IAA 2011. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

Two tasks will be conducted in the Safety Pilot Model Deployment Geographic Area as a proof of concept for incorporating motorcycles into the connected vehicle environment: motorcycle communications feasibility testing and motorcycle-to-vehicle performance testing. UMTRI has partnered with two motorcycle manufacturers: Honda and BMW.

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Teslarati

JULY 31, 2022

MINI has released the first images and videos of their new Aceman concept EV and it marks a significant shift in design while retaining typical “mini-ness.” ” While this vehicle is only a concept at this point , it does (according to mini) hint at future design. As a note, I am a proud MINI owner.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

Founded in 2002, Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) is an international cooperation that includes BMW Group; Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG; Daimler; Ford; GM/Opel; Hamburger Hochbahn; Linde; Shell; StatoilHydro; TOTAL; Vattenfall Europe; and Volkswagen. billion) to support the development of hydrogen fuel cell and electric vehicle technologies.

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Drive Electric

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Special thanks to the Fukutake Family for investing in this concept and staying with us through thick and thin. I’ve worked with many fantastic people in this role and I want to acknowledge them all. We would not be here today without them. The organisation is in good shape, particularly with Kirsten Corson as our Deputy Chair.”

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Green Car Reports

JULY 17, 2012

Earlier this month, BMW confirmed that the Mini Paceman two-door coupe concept car we saw at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show would go on sale in the U.S. early next year.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Luxury automaker Infiniti desperately needs a compact offering to counter cars like the Mercedes-Benz A Class, the Audi A3 and the BMW 1-Series. Its 2011 concept, the Etherea, even showed the direction Infiniti was going with its take on compact luxury.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

TEG component (cartridge) and TEG architecture concept. Partnering with Tenneco and Gentherm are BMW and Ford, as well as CalTech and NREL. Total funding for the 4-year project, which started in October 2011, is $15,794,813; DOE’s share is $9,553,950. Source: Crane (2013).Click Click to enlarge.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 11, 2010

BMW has recognized that they simply teed up GM and Nissan to benefit from the MINI E experience. Today they announced officially that MINI E "pioneers" will be able to extend their leases until 2011. Will MINI E drivers be so loyal to BMW they'll forgo the opportunity to actually purchase a plug-in car? No word on when.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

Since 2011, Bosch has had two teams on two continents working on automated driving. So far, it has been using test vehicles based on the BMW 325d Touring. Before the first test drives, the German certification authority TÜV Süd reviewed the safety concept that Bosch had prepared specially for the purpose.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2015

BMW M GmbH unveiled the BMW Concept M4 GTS at the Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance in Monterey, California. The BMW Concept M4 GTS is the first M3/M4 special production vehicle to be sold in the US. The BMW Concept M4 GTS showcases new technologies which will debut in production vehicles later this year.

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All Cars Electric

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

With BMW slowly revealing further details of their upcoming Megacity EV and teasing us with the 2009 MINI E, and Mercedes-Benz giving us the A-Class E-Cell, it was only a matter of time before rival Audi hit the roads with their own small EV.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The first conversion vehicle is slated for road testing in early summer 2011. The concept for the conversion van program evolved through a collaboration between AC Propulsion and AutoPort, Inc., AC Propulsion was awarded the $300,000 grant out of a total program budget of $750,000.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

In a simultaneous—and video linked—unveil in New York, London and Beijing, BMW introduced the production version of its i3 battery-electric vehicle on Monday. The BMW i3 uses the BMW eDrive rear-wheel drive powertrain previously found on the BMW ActiveE (but the i3 is significantly lighter). Earlier post.)

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

Ignoring the briefly popular commercial electrics around at the turn of the last century, EVs have been experimental concepts or limited edition runs until relatively recently. Good examples of all-new electric cars are the Nissan Leaf battery-electric and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid , which both debuted in 2010 as 2011 models.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2011

At BMW Motorrad Innovation Day 2011, BMW highlighted its latest concept electric-drive E-Scooter. BMW Motorrad earlier developed an electric study vehicle, the C1-E, as a contribution to the European safety project eSUM. Components of the E-Scooter. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2011, the first induction charger trials for electric vehicles were started. What’s To Expect In The Recent Years Major automakers have been working on wireless charging design concepts in recent years. Energy is sent wirelessly from the charger to the car battery to charge the EV.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 23, 2009

Chery Automobile also took the opportunity to debut a concept battery car - the Riichi M1. General Motors’ eagerly anticipated Chevrolet Volt also turned heads at the show - it is expected to be introduced in China by 2011. However, it wasn’t just the home-grown acts that took the spotlight at the event.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Volkswagen L1 – One of those weird and wonderful concepts that you just hope gets to see the light of day, the VW L1 diesel-electric hybrid is constructed from aluminium and carbon fibre, weighs just 380kg and emits just 39g/km of CO2 (see article ). Lexus LF-Ch – Considered a rival to the BMW 120d and the Audi A3 2.0 Volkswagen e-up!

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