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Green Manhattan Beach Going Plug-In. Here Comes BMW’s Mini E!

Creative Greenius

Reliable sources inform your Creative Greenius that Manhattan Beach is about to be named the first Southern California city to be part of BMW’s test of the new plug-in Mini E, the EV version of the popular Mini Cooper. Paul Scott of Plug-In America and Wally Rippel of AC Propulsion w/new Mini E (photo (c) Paul Scott).

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Creative Greenius is EV Driven

Creative Greenius

So you can see that Climate Change , Environment , Standards , Solar and other such terms all relate heavily to Obama according to what people talk about. * For example, if you look at the page on Obama you find: * The keywords on the left are ordered according to their relationship to the current term.

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Greenius Weekend Update

Creative Greenius

And to help kick it all off for you, after the jump I’ll offer up the first ever Greenius Weekend Update: There will be plenty of time very soon enough to be overwhelmed with the crushing hard backhand of climate change and budget reality. But apparently Scotto could not convince the folks at Mini that Torrance was worthy.

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UK TSB Awards £25M to Eight Low-Carbon Vehicle Demonstration Projects; Focus On Electric Vehicles

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MINI E Research Project. Funding provided by the Technology Strategy Board is supporting a 12 month field trial of 40 MINI E models. The trial will evaluate the technical and social aspects of living with an all-electric vehicle in a real world environment. The Allied Vehicles Project.

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Gordon Murray T.27 unveiled; Zytek provides more details on 25 kW EV powertrain

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27 specifically targets the urban city environment via a novel manufacturing process (iStream, earlier post ) developed by consortium lead partner Gordon Murray Design, it aims to significantly reduce lifecycle impacts and enable low cost, efficient manufacture within the UK. 27, which are key to meeting our climate change goals.

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BMW unveils i3 BEV and i8 PHEV Concepts

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The rear-wheel drive battery-electric (BEV) i3 Concept has been specifically developed for use in an urban environment and features a 125 kW electric motor with torque of 250 N·m (184 lb-ft) and a range of approximately 150 kilometers (93 miles). (An Earlier post.). i3 Concept.

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BMW Outlines LifeDrive Architecture for Upcoming Megacity Vehicle; A Focus on CFRP-Enabled Lightweight Design and Safety

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Based on its development work on the MINI E and BMW ActiveE concept projects, BMW concluded that “conversion cars”—i.e., vehicles designed to be powered by combustion engines and subsequently converted to run on electric power—do not represent an optimum long-term solution when it comes to meeting the demands of e-mobility.

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