Green Car Reports

MAY 2, 2016

Before the BMW i3, there was the MINI E. Along with the BMW ActiveE—based on the 1 Series coupe—this electric version of the second-generation BMW MINI was built to provide real-world testing data that helped form the foundation for i3 electric-car development.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 26, 2022

This alphabet soup of letters simply means their car has a plug or runs only on electricity, such as an electric vehicle (EV), or a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) or produces its own electricity as a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle, (FCEV.). We began the car search in January 2022. CFR: Which other cars did you consider?

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 9, 2010

Smart will be launching a test fleet of 250 electric cars in selected areas, including: Portland, San Jose, Indianapolis, Orlando, and the Washington, D.C. Read more in the article: Smart to Launch Test Fleet of Electric Cars. is the most ambitious, with plans to sell as many as 150,000 electric cars in the U.S. Ford Motor Co.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Vietnamese car company has only been around since 2017. All VinFast customers who purchase or lease a VinFast electric vehicle are eligible for VinFast’s aftersales policies, including a 10-year/125,000-mile warranty for the vehicle and 10-year unlimited mileage for the battery under non-commercial use.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Asian brands, led by Lexus, Toyota, and Mazda, in that order, continue to be the best for new car reliability in CR’s survey, which is the largest of its kind. Three European brands, Audi, BMW, and Mini, round out the top 10. On the other end of the spectrum, Hyundai and Mini have the most problematic turbos. —Jake Fisher.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I took possession of my 2009 Mini E electric car (serial number 250) on June 12, 2009. At the time, I signed up for a one year lease, which is all BMW was offering. It was made perfectly clear that after 12 months, we would have to give the car back and that there would be no exceptions.

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Drive Electric

MAY 1, 2023

Press release 2nd May 2023 Drive Electric welcomes the continuation of the Clean Car Discount, as this policy is delivering emissions reductions and saving money on fossil fuels. Mark Gilbert, Chair of Drive Electric says, “The Clean Car Discount has turned New Zealand from a laggard to a leader when it comes to EV adoption.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 7, 2022

While in some cases it’s actually true (the most expensive of charge points vs. the most efficient of internal combustion cars, like my 2008 MINI Cooper Clubman that often gets almost 40 MPG), for the most part these are just hit pieces to sow controversy and generate revenue on ad-heavy websites. Yes, we still do occasionally gas up.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 12, 2009

Stefano Paris at the November 19th, 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show unveiling of the MINI E. If you’ve been following the BMW MINI E program unveiled officially on November 19th, 2008 at the Los Angeles Auto Show you’ll know the process for being selected as a potential MINI E driver is a multistep one.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 11, 2010

BMW has recognized that they simply teed up GM and Nissan to benefit from the MINI E experience. Today they announced officially that MINI E "pioneers" will be able to extend their leases until 2011. Will MINI E drivers be so loyal to BMW they'll forgo the opportunity to actually purchase a plug-in car?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

While automakers, suppliers and the US government are enthusiastically moving toward putting fully autonomous vehicles on the roads, consumers need to have confidence in the technologies currently in vehicles before they will be willing to take their hands off the wheel of self-driving cars. Highest-ranked nameplates and models.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Ongoing field tests involving more than 600 MINI E cars, including 450 in the US, have already provided knowledge about the demands on future electrically powered production vehicles. Following the MINI E, the BMW ActiveE is the BMW Group’s second electric vehicle made available to consumers.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 29, 2009

There are no cars for sale. For years BMW disparaged electric cars, and poured money into liquid hydrogen ICE vehicles and promoted them ad nauseum. Yet it took BMW less than one year to make an electric car. A friend called me while behind the wheel of the MINI E last night and it is, not surprisingly, a hoot to drive.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 27, 2008

The web was buzzing last week with stories about BMW’s MINI E. To recap, BMW will be leasing 500 MINI Es from dealers in New York, New Jersey and Southern California starting some time early in 2009. Those of us familiar with powerful EVs were curious where the drive train for the MINI E originated. While 0-60 in 8.5

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2009

I have seen the future and it is a new car electric car from Nissan. Nissan is about to drink GM’s milkshake with a breakthrough, affordable, next generation electric car that will be beat the Chevy Volt to market, cost half as much and work twice as well. Plus it looks ten times cooler. Really Ford? Are you kidding me?

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Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2009

But first – Our Top Stories This Weekend : Greenius May 6 Scoop on Manhattan Beach Selection as EV Mini E Test City Confirmed By Print Media – Only Two Weeks Later. Not only is the South Bay’s greenest city getting the EVs for use by city officials, Mini USA is also providing an electric charging station for the cars.

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Green Cars News

MAY 11, 2009

A leasing program of 450 Mini E model cars is set to begin in the US. Over the next few weeks a select number of customers in New Jersey, New York and California will take delivery of a fully electric version of the Mini Coupe as part of a trial program. At a high voltage 240v charge, the Mini E takes just 4.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Endless Mountains Transit Authority —$750,000—to convert five public transit buses to CNG that will be fueled at a public fueling station built by Dandy Mini Marts in either Towanda or Sayre. Venango Leasing Co. Giant Eagle Inc. Lower Merion School District —$121,641 – to purchase and use nine CNG school buses.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 1, 2021

The LEAF is the perfect island car,” White continued, noting that St. People feel more comfortable buying a car they know can be serviced and repaired.” “The In 2000, “I decided my next car would be an EV when there was really nothing on the market,” White continued. “I I had a Mini Moke from British Motor Works.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Electric cars are going to be a tough sell to car-mad Brits. So what better to persuade the driving public that a car that you plug in can actually be fun to drive than an electric Mini, one of the most popular cars on the road today. Mini E consumer car reviews Mini E lease prices Mini E new and nearly new.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

MINI is on the hunt for willing test drivers to drive its electric MINI cars as part of a Government-backed scheme to get electric cars on the roads. Pioneering drivers are wanted to partake in MINI E UK research project. Each MINI E will be available to lease for six months from December this year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

The BMW ActiveE ( earlier post ) will be available for lease in the metropolitan markets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York and Boston as well as the state of Connecticut beginning in Fall 2011 for $499 per month for 24 months with a down payment $2,250. BMW ActiveE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The project, which will put 340 vehicles on the road in trials within the next six to eighteen months, will be the biggest of its kind and is intended to accelerate the availability of low carbon cars to consumers. Modern electric cars offer power and bucket loads of torque. Low Carbon doesn’t mean low performance.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 19, 2009

Mini has chosen a good time to launch the latest member of its model range, the One Clubman. The Mini One Clubman therefore seems ideally placed to offer a useful alternative for young families who spend much of their time in and around town, but who also take the occasional longer trip. The Mini One Clubman’s 1.4-litre

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Green Cars News

JUNE 2, 2009

Despite the fact that diesel cars have had limited success in the Japanese market, Subaru is ready to try its luck in the country by launching a diesel model there in 2011. Currently, the diesel version of the car accounts for 54.1 Tags: Green cars Latest news electric mini Stella japan Subaru Subaru diesel car.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to spend some time with Dr. Prabhakar Patil, the CEO of Compact Power, Inc. Mini-cells” Source: LG Chem, ALBAA 2008. Each cell is made of many “mini-cells”, with each mini-cell having a cathode, anode and separator. by Bill Cooke. it would bring down the neighborhood.

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Drive Electric

JANUARY 8, 2021

New Year, new car? So, what better way to round off a trying year than by celebrating the best electric cars to come out in 2020? With the first UK deliveries of the Polestar 2 Fastback coming in June 2020, this exciting fully-electric car has a 78kWh battery pack which produces a mighty WLTP range of 292 miles.

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Drive Electric

JANUARY 19, 2021

From the rise of autonomous cars to the soaring popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) , this is one of the most exciting periods in automotive history. If you have a business which runs a fleet of cars, are in charge of managing a fleet or drive a company car for work, you’re probably asking yourself if now is the time to go electric.

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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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Green Cars News

MAY 13, 2009

The Suzuki Swift makes a versatile, unpretentious, stylish and very cool rival to the likes of the Mini. Likely to appeal to many motorists from newly qualified young drivers looking for something with serious street cred to those looking for an economical and environmentally friendly commuter car or just run-about town small car.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2011

The BMW Group released the data from the MINI E field trial in the UK. An large amount of data was collected electronically by data-loggers in the car and the home charging points, and also from extensive driver research carried out by Oxford Brookes University. MINI E Trial in numbers. 40 MINI Es. The MINI E.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Spring is in bloom just like today’s green deals – headlined by the all-new EGO Power+ Electric Mini Bike at $1,999. Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek ’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Plus, all of the other best new Green Deals landing this week.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

All the new electric cars, electric SUVs and electric utes arriving in Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. READ MORE: Every new electric car coming to Australia in 2022. Alfa Romeo Tonale – the Italian brand finally has a rechargeable car in its ranks in the form of the Tonale PHEV compact SUV. Think iX3, but smaller.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

The automotive and green electric vehicle blogosphere has been abuzz with talk of the BMW MINI E ever since July 9th, 2008, when AutoblogGreen published the rumor that 500 of the intriguing new electric cars would be released later this year in California. Click here to see more photos of the BMW MINI E. ]. second range.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Components of the MINI E powertrain. BMW handed over forty electric MINI E cars to their test drivers on Sunday—all members of the public—in the start of two consecutive six-month field trial periods which will evaluate the psychological, social and technical aspects of living with an electric car. The MINI E.

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Drive Electric

JUNE 16, 2021

The UK capital isn’t the most welcoming place for cars, with the lack of parking, Congestion Charge , congestion itself and the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). With some great transport links to take advantage of, having a car in London isn’t always necessary or practical. It almost seems as though London is against us mere motorists.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

If driving an electric car is new to you, then the instant torque at any speed will be an eye opener. For even more efficiency, the Bolt EUV has One Pedal Driving and Regen On Demand , where the car is slowed or even brought to a complete stop by the motor. Road Test: 2020 Mini SE Electric. Story and photos by John Faulkner. [

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