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News from Detroit

Plugs and Cars

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

Green Car Congress

million North East project that will see an initial 35 passenger vehicles developed in the region, which is already home to one of Europe’s most productive car plants, Nissan, and Smith Electric Vehicles, the world-leading manufacturer of commercial electric vehicles. MINI E Research Project. The Allied Vehicles Project.

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What is in the pipeline for plug-ins?

Green Cars News

It currently lists 47 cars and trucks, 11 two- and three-wheelers, and nine commercial trucks and buses. An electric Rolls Royce Phantom for example, was only mentioned by the company’s executives last year because they are said to be considering adapting the same technology used in the MINI E.

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