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What’s up with the BMW MINI E?

Plugs and Cars

The BMW Mini E has hit the streets. Barely one year ago, word surfaced that an electric Mini was in the works. Join Plug In America's call on CARB to close the loophole that allows full credit for part-time electric cars here. The car is essentially a high-end conversion. It's the rules that stink.

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Creative Greenius is EV Driven

Creative Greenius

For instance, when you go to Chris Payne’s fantastic Revenge of the Electric Car page, check out left side for the topics it digs into, like: Electric Cars (no surprise), Tesla , Mini E , Volt. Plug In Partners. Plugs and Cars. Porsche 914 EV Conversion. Plug-In, Turn-On, Ride-Clean. Green Gearhead.

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AC Propulsion sends eBox EV to Denmark for V2G research focused on buffering intermittent renewable energy

Green Car Congress

With V2G, for example, a fleet of EVs plugged in to the grid could balance the variable ups and downs of power generated from the wind. of New Castle, Delaware, a tier 2 upfitter that does electric car conversions based on the AC Propulsion drive train and vehicle design. The eBox delivered to DTU was manufactured by AutoPort, Inc.,

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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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