Creative Greenius

AUGUST 12, 2009

Here’s a few shots from yesterday first full day of the Plug-In 2009 conference in Long Beach, California. They’ll be making Leafs in Tennessee and they will be making many more batteries than cars. The Greenius checking out the J1772 connector plug for the BMW Mini-E with Mini-E driver and EV advocate Stefano Paris.

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Plug-in 2009 Plug Mini E 186

Revenge of the Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Last week Chris Paine moderated a panel on electric vehicles at the Opportunity Green business conference in Los Angeles. Among the panelists sat Richard Steinberg of BMW, where he leads battery electric vehicle programs in the US markets, including the MINI E and BMW ActiveE programs. “BMW ActiveE?&#

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BMW Los Angeles Mini E New York 180

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.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2009

Holiday greetings from teetering on the precipice of bankruptcy California, where we’ve had a couple of unnerving earthquakes, a historic election and a disappointing Lakers’ home loss in the NBA Western Conference Finals since last I posted. But apparently Scotto could not convince the folks at Mini that Torrance was worthy.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Here’s what the brainiacs at General Motors sent the premier EV car conference on the West Coast. It has a distinctive style and unlike the Chevy doesn’t look like every rental car you’ve ever seen a dweeby out-of-town conventioneer drive to the Holiday Inn Express from the airport.

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i-MiEV 2009 Plug-in Volt 170