Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

The Group is considering various ways to procure renewable energy such as self-production through solar panels, power purchase agreements (PPA) with wind and solar energy producers, as well as purchase through Korea Electric Power Corporation’s (KEPCO) ‘Green Premium’ program. More than 300 global companies are participating.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2013

BMW announced that the Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (without Destination & Handling) for the i3 electric vehicle in the US will be $41,350, before any federal or state incentives. The BMW i3 will offer interior space comparable to the BMW 3 Series on a shorter overall body.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2022

The Group is considering various ways to procure renewable energy, such as self-production through solar panels, power purchase agreements (PPA) with wind and solar energy producers, as well as purchase through Korea Electric Power Corporation’s (KEPCO) ‘Green Premium’ program.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

A production line for carbon fiber takes the PAN precursor through two stages (stabilization/oxidation and carbonization) and then to winding. SGL and BMW made the announcement at the groundbreaking ceremony for the planned site expansion. Since the start of the year, the Leipzig plant has built over 5,000 BMW i3 vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The BlackRock Global Renewable Power platform has invested directly in more than 300 projects globally, including onshore wind, offshore wind, and solar photovoltaic projects. BlackRock is the first company from outside the automotive sector to be a shareholder in this joint venture through its Global Renewable Power platform.

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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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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

With the new automatic climate control system in the BMW 3 Series, BMW is offering a combination of increased interior comfort due to improved air quality and better fuel economy through intelligent control. As a result, says BMW, unpleasant environmental odors are almost entirely eliminated.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2011

At Hannover Messe 2011, Siemens presented a development project for inductive charging (“Contactless Charging of Battery-Electric Vehicles”), developed in cooperation with BMW.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Testing of the first 50 BMW i3 cars equipped with bidirectional charging technology is expected to start under real-world everyday conditions in early 2021. Bringing about these advances is the task of the research project, in which the BMW Group is acting as consortium leader.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

General Motors plans to generate or source all electrical power for its 350 operations in 59 countries with 100% renewable energy—such as wind, sun and landfill gas—by 2050. The company expects to exceed this when two new wind projects come online later this year to help power four manufacturing operations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. The award recognizes EPA Green Power Partners who distinguish themselves using on-site renewable energy applications, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) or landfill gas. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2023

In its efforts to become an “energy company,” Total has invested significantly in green energy projects, specifically solar and wind. While initially slow, its progress in these areas has quickly ramped, and the French conglomerate is now responsible for just over 1GW of solar power alone.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

BMW announced its Smart Charging App for mobile devices in June 2014 following the launch of the BMW i3 electric vehicle. The BMW Smart Charging App makes it possible for BMW i customers to automatically identify the best rates and times for charging their electric vehicles at home. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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EPRI Grid Plug-in Electric Vehicles 334

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2017

Put another way, 1 cubic meter (264 gallons) of methanol offers equivalent energy storage to 222 BMW i3 EVs, each with a 21.6 Renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power plants generate excess current at times when it is not needed. It offers energy densities of 4.4 kWh battery. Source: bse Engineering.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Driving Impressions: Hitting the Road Always in control Our driving time was spent on wet and dry pavement negotiating San Diego County highways and back country winding roads. We were driving the XSE Premium, which weighed 3,571 pounds, with 287 pounds of that coming from the battery and solar roof. The aerodynamic design has a 0.27

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Hydrogen is an indispensable resource to achieve this transition because it can be used to store and transport wind, solar and other renewable electricity to power transportation and many other things. The world in the 21st century must transition to widespread low carbon energy use.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

This two-way data exchange will create a means to use EV batteries to help manage variable grid conditions, generation oversupply and other challenges associated with the state’s goals to decarbonize its electricity sector with renewable energy resources such as solar and wind.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

The PFL 799 technical executive expert panel at this year’s world Congress, chaired by Jesse Schneider (from BMW), invited those automakers as well as infrastructure leaders to discuss their progress in fuel cell technology and hydrogen infrastructure and challenges remaining. This is planned to increase in the future. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ford, Honda, and BMW have announced plans to create a new “vehicle-to-grid company” that’s aimed at standardizing vehicle charging via a singular platform. Electric grid reliability and sustainability are the foundation for an EV powered future,” said Thomas Ruemenapp, Vice President, Engineering, BMW of North America.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

BMW Group, Ford Motor Company and American Honda Motor Co., The company's efforts will reduce EV customers’ personal carbon footprints by utilizing electricity that comes from more readily available renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2006

Titled "Not as Green as it Seems," Spiegel Online takes direct aim not only at BMW's vision of the future, but the entire hydrogen enterprise. Similar to GM's plans for its hydrogen fuel cell Chevrolet, BMW plans to roll out 100 cars, lease only (sound familiar?) But the image is one of deceit.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity. Put the bumper sticker and your car and let everyone know.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The BMW i3 battery electric vehicle can emit 30-50% less total life cycle greenhouse gases than comparable conventional vehicles depending upon the source of its electricity, according to its ISO 14040/14044 certificate from the TÜV SÜD Technical Inspectorate. —Ulrich Kranz, Senior Vice President BMW i. Earlier post.)

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

A BMW owner, he is a possible future Polestar buyer, which made this a demo ride and reinforced my positive impressions. I used my solar-panel-powered Level 2 (240V) home charger, but if you’re on the road and want to top off quickly, DC fast charging at 150 kilowatts takes about 40 minutes to get you to 80 percent.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

EVgo has integrated second-life BMW i3 batteries to store energy from the grid generated during peak solar hours and later use that stored energy to fast-charge EVgo customers during periods of high demand. The second-life battery system integrates two BMW i3 battery packs into a single housing.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Pint has been at Audi for about six months, coming from BMW where he worked on the electric powertrains for the i3 and i8.) The aerodynamics engineers and exterior designers worked closely together in the wind tunnel to develop the exterior of the Audi e-tron quattro concept. Solar roof and heat pump. meters (6.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2015

wind and solar). carbon composite chassis explored by BMW), by improvements in electric-drive efficiency, and by advanced vehicle climatization concepts (e.g., Therefore, companies have been establishing fast-charging stations (ranging, e.g., from 24 kW by BMW to 120 kW by Tesla). kgH 2 /min.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

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. Conclusions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

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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EVolution

JANUARY 29, 2021

Today, we’ll be talking about the price of going solar and charging with the myenergi Zappi. But if you've left that life of fossil fuels behind, we're going to share customer experiences about how much it costs to charge your EV and can you do it with your onsite solar? So, you have the zappi, you have the solar and your first EV.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In their Gigafactories, they use renewable energy sources like solar and wind to power their manufacturing facilities which in turn reduces the carbon footprint associated with production. Some notable examples of sustainability initiatives are Tesla’s Gigafactories.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2023

” – Burt Rutan “I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. ” – Carlos Ghosn “Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. That’s cool.”

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

These capabilities are expected to become even more valuable in future facilitation of higher penetrations of solar- and wind-based generation. Energy storage systems based on reused automotive batteries can increase the availability of peak-period electricity and store energy during periods of low demand.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2023

While 4 out of 10 people could name Tesla, just 18% of them could name BMW, the second most well-known EV brand. 10 Integration with Renewable Energy The fastest-growing energy source in 2019 was solar energy, which was then followed by wind and hydropower. Here are some of the findings of the study. Let us address that issue.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

Axion has been working with BMW since 2009, and is currently in vehicle testing. This 10 kW/12 kWh residential cube will be providing home owners with power quality, uninterruptible power back up, and the ability to store energy from renewable sources such as solar and wind. —Tom Granville. Source: Axion. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Were told that the agreement includes nods of acceptance from the likes of Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Eon, Vattenfall, EDF, Npower, Endesa and Enel, and while theres no time frame for when itll be introduced, were pretty stoked to hear that at least something has been decided upon. Neutral who? @

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