Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

BMW is confident that batteries for its next-generation EVs will finally outdo Tesla in range.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

BMW Group will end its involvement in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship at the end of the coming season. BMW has consistently supported the Formula E project from the beginning, and has enjoyed victories and podiums with the BMW i Andretti Motorsport team. BMW Group has always used Formula E as a tech lab for production.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2021

The BMW iX electric SUV ( earlier post ) has its world premiere at the Auto Shanghai 2021 show. The BMW iX is first model in the brand’s line-up to feature the new Operating System 8 and the latest generation of BMW iDrive. For example, the tech is designed to be able to process 20 times more data than existing models.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2022

The BMW Group is launching a unique project that will see cars maneuver around production without requiring a driver. To make this happen, the BMW Group has been collaborating with Seoul Robotics from South Korea and Embotech from Switzerland. —BMW Group project manager Sascha Andree. It doesn’t use sensors in the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

At the BMW Group plant in Leipzig, the 200,000 th BMW i3 model rolled off the production line last week. The BMW i3s (combined power consumption: 14.6 – 14.0 kWh/100 km) with Fluid Black metallic paint finish and accents in BMW i Blue was produced for a customer from Saxony and will be delivered by the BMW branch in Leipzig.

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InsideEVs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

BMW CTO Frank Weber told us that simulated transmissions aren't a priority for the brand. Phony engine noises are a non-starter.

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Electrek

MARCH 26, 2024

Kia aims to boost sales with improved tech and designs. To help its transition, Kia is bringing on former longtime Mercedes-Benz and BMW designers.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

BMW, Ford, and Honda on Tuesday announced a new company focusing on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) EV charging, which the partners claim will benefit both EV owners and electric utilities. Called ChargeScape, the company aims to start operations in 2024, pending regulatory approval. Its main focus will be connecting EV owners in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With time still to go before expected US market launch in early 2022, and with the series development phase ongoing, BMW provided a first look ahead at the future BMW iX. The BMW iX is the first model based on a new, modular, scalable architecture on which the future of the BMW Group will be built.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

This collaboration between Tata Technologies and BMW Group represents a shared vision of innovation and excellence in automotive engineering and digital solutions. The JV will focus on strategic software development, including solutions for software-defined vehicles (SDV).

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Nio goes 650 miles on a charge to show off its semi-solid-state battery tech. And how good is the electric version of BMW’s 5-Series? In a first drive of the BMW i5 EV, we found this electric sport sedan to be better all. The Biden administration backs NACS, and VW finally caves to the Tesla standard.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

For its next-gen models, BMW is turning to Croatian electric hypercar specialist Rimac for EV batteries. Rimac’s tech division will supply batteries for BMW’s future electric cars. Rimac to supply BMW with EV batteries The collaboration is Rimac Tech’s “largest and most ambitious project” the company has undertaken.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The BMW iFE.20 20 Formula E racer uses a cooling shaft manufactured from flax fibers—the first BMW race car fielded by a works team with parts made out of renewable textile fibers. The flax cooling shaft that we use in the BMW iFE.20 —BMW Group Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt. The BMW iFE.20

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 1, 2022

Turning heads inside and outside, and flaunting equal parts tech leading edge and design oddity, the 2023 BMW iX is anything but conventional. The BMW iX pairs some of the advanced material smarts and the battery and electric propulsion. Think EVs are becoming normal?

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InsideEVs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Yep, I drove a 510-horsepower BMW M4 while wearing the world's most high-tech blindfold. It was a blast.

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InsideEVs

JUNE 14, 2022

ONE promises to effectively double the BMW iX electric SUV's range thanks to its Gemini Dual-Chemistry battery tech.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 8, 2024

percent of the total market share in the United States in 2023, outpacing companies like Volkswagen, Subaru, and BMW. automotive market, which eclipsed the share automakers like BMW, Mazda, and Daimler had for the year, as those companies reported 2.5, The post Tesla outpaces Volkswagen, Subaru, BMW in 2023 U.S. Tesla held 4.2

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

New cars have all sorts of driver monitoring tech on board that can tell when a person is paying attention or has their hands on the wheel, but the National Transportation Safety Board feels there’s a need for more. Besides the drugs in the driver’s system, the car’s extreme speed turned it into a deadly battering ram.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2022

Michigan-based startup Our Next Energy (ONE) plans to demonstrate mixed-chemistry battery tech that it claims will enable 600 miles of range. The startup on Tuesday announced an agreement with BMW to use the automaker's iX electric SUV as a demonstrator of its new battery tech, called Gemini.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

BMW Group Thailand has inaugurated local high-voltage battery production plant in partnership with the DRÄXLMAIER Group, one of the world’s leading automotive suppliers and a partner of BMW Group since 1966. BMW Group Thailand launched the local assembly lines in July 2019 at the DRÄXLMAIER Group plant.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 23, 2023

A California utility and BMW are working together on greening the grid with V2X tech. Cadillac gives its long-anticipated Escalade EV a timeline and a badge. And Ford likens its efficiency-focused three-row electric SUV coming in 2025 to a “personal bullet train.” ” This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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My EV Review

APRIL 17, 2023

Introducing the BMW i7 M70 xDrive, the all-electric performance automobile from BMW M GmbH that now leads the new BMW 7 Series model range.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 25, 2023

Stellantis sees lithium-sulfur battery tech in its future. And the BMW i5 looks much like a gasoline 5-Series. The 2024 BMW i5 revealed Wednesday is essentially a fully electric BMW 5-Series. Volvo’s upcoming EX30 is going for the brand’s smallest-ever carbon footprint. Is that a good thing?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The BMW Group is exploring new ways of working with suppliers and, in the case of strategically important components, becoming more closely involved in the supplier network. The agreement guarantees the BMW Group the supply of several million microchips per year. Customer deliveries of the BMW iX got underway in early November.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 16, 2021

BMW looks to its next-generation interface due in the iX electric SUV. VW makes a big shift toward battery technology. And which Mercedes EVs are coming to the U.S.? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Electrek

JUNE 7, 2023

Battery tech firm AESC is partnered with BMW, and it broke ground today on a 30 GWh EV battery factory in Florence County, South Carolina. more… The post AESC is opening a huge EV battery factory in South Carolina to supply BMW appeared first on Electrek.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

BMW hasn’t been shy about playing around with new electric two-wheeler designs, though the number that have actually made it onto showroom floors is significantly lower. This time we’re getting a look at a potential new BMW electric scooter that may actually make it to production. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

The aluminum die-casting specialist, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JHI International BV, a part of the Dr. Abhay Firodia Group of Companies from India, is a significant collaborative venture between BMW and Jaya Hind Industries Private Limited.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Future BMW electric vehicles will go farther on a charge and will be faster-charging, while costing less to produce.

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

The BMW Vision Neue Klasse EV concept previews en efficient future with impressive tech.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2024

Rimac is working on battery cells for future BMW EVs. And Rimac announced that it will help BMW with next-gen EV batteries , as the company that started with a BMW EV conversions, and then a supercar maker, now also shifts roles to a high-tech supplier. The Fiat 500e is back, and we drove it in its element.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 17, 2022

A startup claims it can boost the BMW iX to 600 miles of range. GM revealed that its tech center in Warren. General Motors is making sure the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EV is priced at least as low as incoming 2023 versions. And Cadillac plans to make its Celestiq electric flagship in Michigan—by hand.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The BMW iNext electric SUV has been teased numerous times, but on Wednesday we finally got the first details of the production version, along with confirmation that the name will be shortened to BMW iX for the SUV's launch in late 2021, likely as a 2022 model.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 23, 2020

BMW confirmed Monday that many of its vehicles in the near future will use two useful tech pieces just announced by Apple.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

At the Los Angeles Auto Show, BMW unveiled the first i8 Roadster, along with the 2019 i8 Coupe. Optimized BMW eDrive technology delivers more power—total output increased to 369 hp (+12 hp)—and a refined high-voltage battery with increased capacity and range. Optimized BMW eDrive technology.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

BMW is relying on Shell Recharge Solutions to offer customers streamlined access to EV charging stations across multiple networks. The automaker on Wednesday announced an agreement with Shell Recharge Solutions that it claims will provide access to more than 100,000 public chargers through the My BMW app.

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InsideEVs

MARCH 21, 2024

The first series-production electric SUVs based on this design will hit the streets next year.

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