Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 1, 2009

AC Propulsion, the San Dimas, CA, company that birthed the modern-day EV with its AC-150 drive train, was tapped by BMW last year to provide drivetrains for an initial run of 500 Minis. The Mini E is a well designed car with all the amenities one would expect of a new car these days. The more the merrier, I say.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2012

BMW of North America will partner with Green Mountain Energy Company to offer drivers of the BMW ActiveE the choice to support renewable energy for their cars. The feedback from customers testing the MINI E and the BMW ActiveE will be fed directly into series production of the BMW i3.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Feedback from the first trials of the Mini E has been released, as the carmaker embarks on a second six month trial of its electric model. The BMW-owned carmaker begins the second half of the twelve month testing this week, with private individuals and company fleets recruited within the UK to take part in the [.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2011

AC Propulsion’s sister company e.motor Advance Corp. The contract between the two companies provides that e.motor Advance will deliver 100 sets of its drivetrain and battery pack systems to Foton for their Midi-E electric car. The 100 Midi-E vehicles will be in service as taxis in the Yanqing area of Beijing in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

As part of the project “Norddeutsche Energiewende NEW 4.0”, Vattenfall, together with the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) and the company Nordex, will implement a large battery storage at the future wind farm in Hamburg-Bergedorf. This is a so-called storage control unit made of batteries. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JUNE 21, 2016

In 2011, batteries which were previously used in the MINI E test fleet were successfully implemented in a stationary project. In 2013, BMW and the University of San Diego installed a micro grid application with Battery 2nd Life MINI E batteries. ChargeForward.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

BMW might have a reputation for producing performance cars and sport sedans, but there's no denying that the company is also taking electric and plug-in vehicles seriously too. First came the electric MINI E, followed by the ActiveE, and the i3 and i8 plug-ins have been wowing auto show crowds for a few years now.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2010

The company has begun shipping its TS-70 product to Europe with Tesla for use with the Tesla Roadster and plans to introduce its CS model for public infrastructure in the coming months. The CS line is also UL-listed to charge from 30 Amps to 100 Amps.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

The BMW Group Technology Office, together with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), have launched an 18-month pilot of the BMW i ChargeForward Program in the San Francisco Bay Area. The program is now issuing calls to participating BMW i3 drivers in the Bay Area to request the interruption of the charging of their EVs for one hour.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BMW announced the BMW i ChargeForward Program—a pilot study to be undertaken by the BMW Group Technology Office, together with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E). EV battery “second life” system using MINI E vehicle batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2009

The first output of project i was the MINI E, which is currently in a large-scale field trial with about 600 vehicles in the US, UK, and Germany. The MINI E is powered by a drive system and battery pack from AC Propulsion. Data resulting from the trials will be used in the development of the Megacity vehicle, BMW said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The companies are currently working with a variety of utilities to develop hardware and software needed to effectively manage the smart charging of electric vehicles. ClipperCreek produced more than 2,000 chargers in 2009 and is the exclusive provider of EVSE chargers for BMW’s Mini-E and for Tesla Motors’ Level 2 EVSE charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The pilot project is divided into three stages and will initially be limited to the company locations in Munich and Erlangen. The latter project is taking place in the Munich model region and is run in cooperation with BMW and the Munich municipal utility company SWM. mobility and Drive eCharged.

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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

MAY 18, 2010

Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, speaking at the company’s 90 th Annual General Meeting today in Munich. The company is also anticipating the hybridization of further models series, such as the BMW 3 Series, Reithofer said. We can implement e-mobility today. ”. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

BMW has now produced two electric cars: the two-seat Mini E, of which 600 examples are on test in the U.S., The company will launch an all-electric vehicle sometime "during the. Europe, and U.K., and the new ActiveE Concept unveiled at last month's Detroit Auto Show, which will be similarly tested starting next year.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2009

This is a move that GM, Ford and whatever’s left of Chrysler should have made, but it’s too creative, too bold and too American for any of those legacy car companies to pull off in the 21st century. These are companies that already screwed the pooch and squandered their market share and competitive advantage.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

MINI E customers, based primarily in Los Angeles with a few in the New York City-area, will participate in the study. With the US field trials of the MINI Es already underway for two months, BMW is already gathering data from the 450 drivers of MINI E electric-powered vehicles. miles on a single charge.)

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Green Cars News

JUNE 25, 2009

“Smart has been conducting real-life trials of 100 electric cars with partner companies across the country since 2007,&# he said. The BMW Group will also be supplied a portion of the £25million fund, which will enable the MINI E to be introduced on to Britain’s roads before the end of 2009.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The West Midlands consortium, called CABLED—short for Coventry and Birmingham Low Emission Demonstrators—is made up of 13 organizations, led by Arup, a company with experience that crosses all areas that touch this project, from vehicle design to planning, to infrastructure and energy. MINI E Research Project.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

BMW i3, BMW i8 and iPerformance owners in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area who are Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customers are invited to apply for participation in a 24-month program focused on managed EV and PHEV charging.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

Concurrent with the Washington show, Dr. Jens Vetter from BMW presented an overview of the company’s current findings on the relation between cell and system characteristics for Li-ion battery packs for hybrids at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) in Pasadena.). —Jim O’Donnell.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 1, 2010

The BMW Megacity EV, as the company calls it, will enter production in either 2012 or 2013. As a way to test electric vehicles, the company has released the Mini E prototype for field testing and.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 5, 2010

press tour to get my thoughts about the company working on an electric car again, my response probably involved suggesting she lay off the crack. While some are better known than others, the group is basically made up of three types of people: current or former EV drivers (EV1, RAV4, Mini E), industry veterans, and newer enthusiasts.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 20, 2010

AC Propulsion, source of the technologies and/or components and systems for the Tesla Roadster and Mini-e, has now partnered with AutoPort, Inc. Among many capabilities, AutoPort specializes in fleet conversions, so it's clear what each company brings to this.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 29, 2010

st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } BMW offered the Mini E electric vehicle to select individuals on a lease basis for those few selected individuals willing to pay a high monthly fee to essentially test drive a prototype vehicle for an extended period of time.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 3, 2009

Production of the batteries will begin next year and, according to a briefing by Dr Joachim Fetzer, the executive vice president of SB LiMotive, the company will focus on optimising the cell chemistry. The company hopes to produce a battery pack for around €350 by 2015 - that’s around two thirds of the current cost.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 23, 2009

TSB announced the companies which had been selected to partake in the trials this morning through its ‘Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator’ competition. Cars set to be used in the trial include the Mini E, the Mitsubishi iMiEV and the electric smart ed.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2009

It can be difficult to keep track with what is and isn’t out there, with most still years away from hitting the roads, and so now one company has catalogued the field. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are on their way with new innovations seemingly announced all the time. Some of the vehicles listed are questionable.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

billion invested in 180 green-technology companies. billion invested in 180 green-technology companies worldwide in the first quarter of 2010, according to a study by the Cleantech Group and Deloitte. Bob Lutz, the outgoing vice chairman of GM, has said the company will produce about 8,000 Chevy Volts in 2011. percent of $1.9

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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. MINI E Trial in numbers. 40 MINI Es. The MINI E. The MINI E is a two-seat development of the familiar MINI Hatch, powered by a 204hp electric motor that also generates 220 N·m of torque. Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

JULY 11, 2009

The company is already said to be working on agreements with rental car companies for special rates when drivers need a car to travel further. According to its reporter, the MINI E was fast but lost speed rapidly as soon as you took your foot off the accelerator - by contrast, the Nissan Cube is smooth, silent and easy to use.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 17, 2009

Both ministers drove a MINI E electric car at the event as they announced plans to support motorists by providing help worth £2000-£5000 towards buying their first electric or plug-in hybrid car when they hit the showrooms. And what better time to do this than in the year we celebrate the 50th birthday of MINI.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 24, 2009

GM CEO Rick Waggoner was pushed out and the company got sixty days to get its act together. Given the much lower production costs in China, the first Chinese company to pass American certification could place an EV on the market in the US that would cost a consumer under $20,000 (after incentives.) Here's my April column.

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Green Cars News

JULY 28, 2009

MINI has proudly showcased its Oxford-built MINI E electric car which is being trialled in the US market; while Lotus has helped develop the new Tesla Roadster – an electric sports car that will also debut in the North American market. Our verdict….

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Same truth of engineers who have actually talked to real drivers is in evidence with the BMW Mini-E. Fortunately there are companies at the Plug-In Conference who exceed expectations and one of them is Coulomb out of Campbell, California. They even had a real plug connected to their toy car on the exhibit hall. AeroVironment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

At BMW Group’s Innovation Days: Mobility of the Future briefing in Munich, the company outlined its plans for the upcoming electric Megacity Vehicle (MCV), due onto the market in 2013 ( earlier post ), as well as the new LifeDrive architecture upon which the MCV is based. BMW Group Megacity Vehicle Design Sketch. Click to enlarge.

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