Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 5, 2014
DriveNow, the carsharing joint venture between the BMW Group and Sixt SE ( earlier post ), has launched its flexible carsharing service in London. Initially, 210 BMW 1 Series and MINI Countryman models will be available for spontaneous hire. The standard one-off registration fee for London will be £29 ($45).
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 29, 2023
BMW Group and WAE Technologies will join the project’s steering committee. At BMW Group we have more than 13 years of automotive battery cell development experience. The development of all solid state batteries is an important and promising long term goal, to make future battery-electric vehicles even more sustainable and efficient.
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2018
The European ZEFER (Zero Emission Fleet vehicles for European Roll-out) project will deploy large fleets of 60 hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles in each of three European capitals (Paris, London and Brussels). One hundred seventy FCEVs will be operated as taxi or private-hire vehicles, and the remaining 10 will be used by the police.).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Overall winner of the second annual Brighton to London RAC (Royal Automotive Club) Future Car Challenge on 5 November was former Formula 1 designer Gordon Murray and his T.27 27 electric vehicle. Earlier post.). More than 65 low-emission vehicles —some not seen on UK roads before— completed the Challenge.
Green Car Congress
MAY 27, 2018
The BMW Design Department in collaboration with MIT’s Self-Assembly Laboratory have successfully developed printed inflatable material technologies that selftransform, adapt and morph from one state to another. The outcome of this collaboration manifests that a new material future is imminent. —Martina Starke.
Green Car Congress
JULY 6, 2016
Car-sharing service DriveNow is extending its service to Brussels—the tenth European city where the premium car sharing joint venture from BMW Group and Sixt SE will operate. The strategy considers the further development of customer-oriented mobility services to be a central business area of the future.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 14, 2021
UK-based AMTE Power has secured a project from the Government’s Faraday Battery Challenge, worth £1 million, to develop a higher energy density variant of its Ultra High-Power (UHP) lithium-ion cell, with support from Imperial College London for battery modeling. Earlier post.).
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