All Cars Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The lease of the prototype Mini E has been a success. BMW discussed some of their results from the field testing program of the Mini E and opened their press conference with the headline, "Mini E Drivers Delighted with Electric Vehicle Experience."

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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. The Greenius checking out the J1772 connector plug for the BMW Mini-E with Mini-E driver and EV advocate Stefano Paris. He charges his Mini-E it from the power his rooftop solar system generates.

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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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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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

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.).

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2009

Your Creative Greenius will be covering the 2009 Plug-In Conference coming up next week from August 10-13 and I’ll see the Leaf up close and personal and talk to the Nissan people. Talk about a company screwing up its own brand future… Contrast that with Nissan’s sincere and very prescient effort to delver the real deal.

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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. Same truth of engineers who have actually talked to real drivers is in evidence with the BMW Mini-E. There were at least four exhibitors at this year’s conference directly addressing the fleet market.

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