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BMW Designs Custom Solar Charging Station For i3, i8

Green Car Reports

Solar charging is indisputably one of the best ways of running an electric vehicle. It certainly mitigates any lingering worries about fueling your car with a smoke-belching coal-fired power plant.

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BMW ActiveE Drivers To Benefit From Cheaper Solar Power

Green Car Reports

Sneery it may be, but there's an underlying point if your main source of power is something like coal. However, BMW ActiveE drivers will soon be able to reply "from my discounted solar. comes the oft-sneering question when the subject of electric cars is brought up in polite conversation.

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Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice

Clean Fleet Report

The vehicles use electricity produced from nuclear power, coal, natural gas or solar energy. Road Test: BMW Takes the Middle Path to Electrification The post Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice first appeared on Clean Fleet Report. High Torque. News: Mazda Join the EV Crowd with MX-30 EV.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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Some of the automakers include in that agreement are Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Toyota and Mitsubishi. Caroline Reichert, a spokeswoman for the Germany energy company RWE , said leading automotive and energy companies have reached an agreement for a standardized plug for electric cars. by RSS or sign up by email.

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UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

Green Car Congress

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Electric Car Quotes: List of the Best Electric Vehicle Quotes

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” – Burt Rutan “I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. ” – George Clooney “Electric cars are coal powered cars. That’s cool.” Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline powered cars.” This will allow you to play with different shapes.”