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Stellantis buys Share Now car-sharing venture from BMW and Mercedes

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Stellantis will buy the Share Now car-sharing joint venture from BMW and Mercedes-Benz, incorporating it into Stellantis' own Free2Move service. The companies didn't disclose a selling price, but Bloomberg reported that it could have been around $260 million.

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IDTechEx: buying an autonomous electric car will feel more like buying a laptop than a car

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Source: IDTechEx What are the main concerns when buying a laptop? This is fairly new, and it is hard to think of another car company advertising based on its sensing capabilities. Automakers will buy an electric powertrain from one company and an autonomous system from another and bundle it into their branded packaging.

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Driving Dystopia: BMW Sneaks Subscription Services Back Into Vehicles

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Last year, BMW walked back its decision to offer subscriptions for heated seats. But the intention to normalize subscriptions remained and BMW has since decided to offer monthly billings on adaptive headlights — which is something you’d expect a luxury brand to offer by default.

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Report: The Next-Gen BMW M3 Will Land with Electric and ICE Powertrains

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BMW has aggressive electrification plans, but the automaker isn’t taking its eye off the internal combustion ball. A new report from BMW Blog states that BMW is planning a next-generation M3 between 2027 and 2028 that will land with gas and electric configurations. Image: BMW] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Pour One Out for BMW's Dual-Clutch Transmissions

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In the “old days,” you had two transmission options if you wanted to buy a car. That’s about to change for BMW, at least, as the company’s M division head of development told Top Gear that the DCT would die as it shifted to electrification. & Progress is progress, but it’s hard not to be wistful about BMW dropping the DCT.

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BMW iX review, lower-priced VW ID.4, limited Mini Cooper SE, Fisker and Lucid updates: The Week in Reverse

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Which automaker is offering to buy back its recalled EVs? Which company was sentenced to a U.S. We warmed up to the weirdness with a weeklong drive review of the BMW iX. criminal penalty for diesel emissions this week?

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BMW i Ventures invests in Prometheus Fuels; CO2 air-capture and conversion to carbon-neutral gasoline

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BMW i Ventures has invested in Prometheus Fuels ( earlier post ), a company removing CO 2 from the air and turning it into zero-net carbon gasoline that it will sell at gas stations, at a price that competes with fossil fuels, starting as early as this year. —Greg Smithies, Partner, BMW i Ventures.

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