Green Car Reports

MARCH 17, 2021

BMW on Wednesday gave the public a first un-camouflaged look at its i4 electric car during an annual conference. The i4 starts production later this year, but likely won't reach the United States until next year, as a 2022 model.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2021

BMW expects electric cars to account for half of its global sales by 2030, but doesn't plan to stop developing internal-combustion engines, the automaker announced during its annual conference last week.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

BMW continues to preview its next-generation EVs with a new concept car, while also providing a bit more detail on some of the engineering for these new models, which are due to start production next year. The BMW Vision Neue Klasse X is an electric SUV that forecasts a model due to start production in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2025.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

BMW continues to preview its next-generation EVs with a new concept car, while also providing a bit more detail on some of the engineering for these new models, which are due to start production next year. The BMW Vision Neue Klasse X is an electric SUV that forecasts a model due to start production in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2025.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

During the Eurocities conference this week in Munich, the BMW Group presented the prototype of a highly energy efficient street light that is also a charging station for electric vehicles, called “Light and Charge”. With the ChargeNow map of BMW i, we are creating today access to the world’s largest network of charging stations.

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Electrek

MARCH 15, 2023

At the BMW Annual conference 2023, the automaker announced further details while giving us a preview of its first fully electric 5 series, the i5 sedan launching in October. CEO Oliver Zipse added that “a fully electric performance model” from BMW M gmbH will be included in the lineup.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 17, 2021

The MINI Vision Urbanaut is a truly cool, fun, exciting concept vehicle and BMW Group just put a physical version of it on stage at the DLD Summer conference in Munich. I’d like to say that I’m thrilled about that, but quite the opposite, I find it extremely frustrating. All of this work is going […].

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CN EV Post

APRIL 14, 2023

NIO will hold 2 press conferences on April 18 from 10:00-10:20 and on April 19 from 14:00-14:30. As the first major auto show after the Covid opening in China, the Shanghai auto show, which will start next week, is highly anticipated, with more than 100 press conferences by car companies and supply chain players on media days.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

BMW is the latest automaker suggesting a wave of EV buyers is expected to hit the market in the coming year. The German automaker’s CFO, Nickolas Peter, said in a video conference Monday he expects pure electric vehicle sales to reach 400,000 next year as demand continues building and supply chains ease.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

German automaker BMW has announced an updated timeline to reduce carbon emissions throughout the entire life cycle of its internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, including the entire production process. more… The post BMW plans to reduce CO2 emissions in vehicle life cycles by 40% by 2030 appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2017

During its press conference at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, BMW announced that the new BMW 530e plug-in hybrid iPerformance ( earlier post ) will be available starting at $51,400; the all-wheel drive BMW 530e xDrive iPerformance Sedan will start at $53,700, plus $995 Destination and Handling.

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Discover EV

MARCH 19, 2021

BMW is electrifying its model range, but ICE will live on beyond 2030

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

On the terminate of 2022, recruit penetration at BMW was once unwell dramatically — 30-plus issues vs. pre-pandemic ranges, BMW Nationwide Broker Discussion board Chairman David Sloane informed Car Information on the age. BMW and its captive finance arm listened, after spoke back with systems to produce leasing extra compelling.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The Carbon Core body structure of the new BMW 7 Series has been awarded the EuroCarBody Award 2015 at the 17 th Global Car Body Benchmarking Conference. The body of the new BMW luxury sedans was given a rating of 41.87 This puts their weight at the level of the third generation of the BMW 7 Series launched in 1994.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The BMW Group will showcase five electric vehicles at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show including the North American premieres of the BMW i Vision Dynamics, MINI Electric Concept, BMW i3s, and a World Premiere vehicle that will be shown during the BMW Group press conference on Wednesday, 29 November. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

The heads of BMW, Volkswagen, and Renault have spoken out against European Union’s emission targets in recent days, arguing that the phase-out rules put too much pressure on the industry and that consumers aren’t buying EVs fast enough. Photo: BMW If you’re an electric vehicle owner, charge up your car at home with rooftop solar panels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2012

BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer is calling for tax subsidies in Germany to help meet the federal government’s target of having 1 million electric cars on the road in eight years. But last year, we sold just 2,000, including 100 at retail,” Reithofer said on Thursday at the “Handelsblatt” annual conference in Munich.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2014

BMW has awarded ENGEL Austria another contract to supply system solutions to BMW’s Leipzig factory, where ENGEL duo injection moulding machines are used to manufacture car body shell components for the BMW i3 electric vehicle. Both machines are fitted with a multi-axis robot.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

What does BMW’s new concept tell us about its coming EVs? Lots… The BMW Vision Neue Klasse provides a more realistic preview of the compact EV sedan coming in 2025 than the i Vision Dee shown earlier in 2023. This tech, it turns out, will serve as the basis for an entire family of better BMW EVs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2017

BMW of North America has partnered with the National Park Foundation, National Park Service and the Department of Energy to install up to 100 electric vehicle charging stations in national parks and nearby communities across the country. DOE Clean Cities will work with the national parks and BMW to continue providing technical expertise.

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Teslarati

JULY 21, 2021

The global semiconductor shortage is halting production lines of both BMW and Daimler’s facilities in Germany. BMW announced that the semiconductor shortage affected production by around 10,000 units this week, and the problems are expected to continue into next week. The company delivered 2.324 million cars last year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

At its Annual Account Press Conference 2015, the BMW Group announced that, for the first time in the history of the Group, 51% of its electricity worldwide is being supplied from renewable sources. Examples of the use of renewable power include: In Leipzig, Germany, the BMW Group is using wind power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

BMW of North America launched its BMW i DC Fast Chargers, which can charge the BMW i3 all-electric vehicle’s battery up to 80% in 30 minutes, at the Plug-In 2014 conference. The fast chargers are a joint development between BMW and Bosch Automotive Service Solutions. EL-51620 BMW i DC Fast Charger.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2016

BMW Connected, a new personal mobility companion, made its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016, Microsoft’s developer conference, last week. The first version—called BMW Connected North America—is now available at the Apple App Store to BMW ConnectedDrive customers in the US for iOS devices.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2012

DriveNow, which launched in June in San Francisco, is a flexible, premium car-sharing program offering the opportunity to drive the battery-electric BMW ActiveE. All of these initiatives are part of BMW i, a BMW brand focused on developing sustainable premium mobility solutions. Parking and charging is free at DriveNow Stations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The BMW Group’s Efficient Dynamics strategy is targeting reductions in fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions while at the same time increasing performance. In the area of passenger compartment heating, BMW is exploring the use of heat pumps as well as of infrared systems. By using a heat pump, even this requirement can be realized.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Last week Chris Paine moderated a panel on electric vehicles at the Opportunity Green business conference in Los Angeles. Among the panelists sat Richard Steinberg of BMW, where he leads battery electric vehicle programs in the US markets, including the MINI E and BMW ActiveE programs. “BMW ActiveE?&#

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2011

BMW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) concerning a mid-to-long-term collaboration on next-generation environment-friendly technologies. In addition, Toyota Motor Europe (TME), TMC’s European subsidiary, and BMW Group have entered into a contract under which BMW Group is to supply 1.6-liter

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Discover EV

MARCH 19, 2021

BMW reveals the new i4 EV at its Annual Conference

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2017

BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye announced that a fleet of approximately 40 autonomous BMW vehicles will be on the roads by the second half of 2017, demonstrating the significant advancements made by the three companies towards fully autonomous driving. —Klaus Fröhlich, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG for Development.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

For the first time, a transmission cross beam has been manufactured of the plastic polyamide and used as standard in the new BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo 550i. The first transmission cross beam made of plastic (front) was developed by ContiTech in close cooperation with BMW and BASF. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2012

On Thursday, we brought you news that BMW was planning to ditch its partnership with GM to develop fuel cell vehicles, for Japanese rival Toyota. That news has now been confirmed, with a joint press conference on Friday heralding the start of BMW and Toyota's partnership.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

BMW powertrain strategy. For the first time in more than a decade, BMW will once again offer a four-cylinder engine in the United States, said Jim O’Donnell, president BMW North America, in remarks at the Washington DC Auto Show. BMW: relationship between cell and system characteristics for Li-ion for hybrids.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

At the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, BMW introduced its press conference with a preview of the next installment of the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie series. BMW features prominently in this production, with its plug-in hybrid supercar i8 as one of the team’s advanced tools.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 29, 2011

BMW today revealed concept versions of its first-ever production electric cars: the i3 battery electric minicar and i8 plug-in hybrid sports coupe. The designs and details of both cars were unveiled in a Frankfurt press conference that was broadcast globally on the Internet.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. The conference attendees heard the now familiar if increasingly impassioned representatives of the utility industry trumpet the benefits of electricity for transportation. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2010

During the AASHTO conference (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) in Palm Desert, California last fall, BMW and Siemens presented a system that transmits data between traffic lights and the vehicle to optimize the automatic engine start-stop function and the recovery of braking energy when approaching a traffic light.

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