Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. The system utilizes BMW i3 high-voltage batteries and can be expanded to incorporate second-life batteries as they become available in the market.

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Energy Storage BMW Energy Battery 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

The study has two parts: (1) a managed charge pilot program involving BMW i3 owners; and (2) a battery second-life energy storage system. The benefit to PG&E of more efficient use of existing power grid resources through EV charging management is passed on in the form of monetary incentives to program participants.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

The study has two parts, a managed charge pilot program involving BMW i3 owners and a battery second life energy storage system. In the managed charge pilot program, select BMW i3 owners will allow PG&E to request a delay in the charging of their vehicles by up to an hour, when grid loads are at their peak. Program participation.

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Grid BMW Las Vegas Charging 150

Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 12, 2010

All MegaCity cars will run solely on electricity stored in a 16-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack. The first was the two-seat Mini E, of which 600 examples are on test in the U.S., Cells come from a joint venture of German parts maker Bosch and Korean conglomerate Samsung. Early tests. Europe, and U.K.

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Carbon Fiber BMW Carbon Mitsubishi 133

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

The BMW Concept ActiveE follows the all-electric MINI E as the second large-scale electric vehicle test program to be conducted in the hands of interested customers. The field tests with the MINI E as part of Project i in the US and Europe have already provided insights into the demands required of future production electric vehicles.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Luckily no one was really at Plug-In 2009 to hear the Three Car Stooges at this point, they don’t have any pleasant surprises in store for us. Same truth of engineers who have actually talked to real drivers is in evidence with the BMW Mini-E. The Mitsubishi i-MiEV, only here because SCE is testing it.

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