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. In addition to this opportunity to purchase RECs from Green Mountain, ActiveE drivers can take advantage of a separate BMW clean energy offer.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 13, 2011

BMW has purchased the car-leasing unit of Dutch banking giant ING for a reported $1 billion. The move enables BMW to expand its fleet operations, but more importantly, it gives the automaker the ability to aggressively promote the launch of its i Series electric cars via leasing options.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2018

BMW i is introducing a factory-fitted, fully integrated inductive charging facility for the high-voltage battery in a plug-in hybrid vehicle. The BMW Wireless Charging option can be ordered now as a leasing-option for the BMW 530e iPerformance (fuel consumption in legislative EU test-cycle combined: 2.3 – 1.9

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Green Car Reports

MAY 30, 2018

When will charging your electric car be as convenient as charging your phone? This summer, if BMW has its way. The company says it will be the first to lease a wireless inductive charging system in the U.S. Customers can order the system now, and BMW says it will be delivered in Europe starting in July and that it.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

BMW and Green Mountain Energy Company are partnering to reduce the environmental impact of the entire BMW ActiveE fleet in the DriveNow program. DriveNow is a car sharing program that gives drivers access to efficient, premium vehicles. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2012

If so, you might just have what it takes to become an "Electronaut", BMW's term for the select few who'll be piloting the 2012 BMW ActiveE for the next few years. BMW has started the recruitment process to find 700 potential ActiveE drivers. BMW's "Electronauts" are being touted as forward-thinking.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 4, 2014

A new car''s biggest competitor is sometimes the one that came before it. That wasn''t supposed to be the case with the upcoming 2014 BMW i3 electric car and its predecessor, the ActiveE tested by hundreds of U.S.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2014

What do you do with a fleet of surplus electric cars? As their two-year leases to BMW''s fleet of "Electronaut" test drivers expire, BMW ActiveE electric cars are now returning to the company. The ActiveE is a BMW.'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

How badly do you want to buy a BMW i3 electric car? Badly enough to move to areas of California where Southern California Edison will be your electric utility? DON'T MISS: How to buy or lease an electric.

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Teslarati

APRIL 22, 2024

On Monday, Rivian sent an email to prospective customers about the “Electric Upgrade” offer, a $5,000 gas trade-in discount that will also get buyers one year of free charging on the Rivian Adventure Network (RAN). or Canada who purchase or lease a new Rivian R1 between April 22 and June 30.

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 5, 2011

BMW made a step towards its electric car future today by launching its ActiveE electric car forums. In its final Plugged-In newsletter to all its current MINI E Lease participants, BMW announced that the new website will form the backbone of BMW’s next electric car program.

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Drive Electric

JANUARY 13, 2022

If you’re looking for a very fast, large, all-electric SUV with a long driving range then your prayers have been answered: meet the BMW iX M60. seconds, and BMW claims that the rate of acceleration remains constant right up to the electronically limited maximum speed of 155mph. The iX M60 is also capable of 0-62mph in 3.8

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

From a heavily updated Toyota Yaris to lease deals on the BMW i3 electric car, today seems to be small-car day--although a convertible conversion of the big luxury Tesla Model S offsets all of that. Plus, we dig into what makes a new French compressed-air hybrid concept car work.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 24, 2021

The Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup will start $10,000 higher in its 300-mile form. BMW is switching to some special sustainable tires for one of its plug-in hybrids. And the Jeep Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid is quite a deal right now to lease. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. This morning.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 20, 2014

We''ve got used to seeing electric cars with temptingly low lease prices, in a generally successful effort to draw in buyers otherwise deterred by high purchase costs. For two of the newest kids on the block, the 2014 BMW i3 and 2014 Cadillac ELR, those price-gouging tactics haven''t arrived just yet.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Of all the electric vehicles planned by major automakers, few are more eagerly awaited than the BMW MegaCity 'i' all-electric urban car, expected to go into production late in 2013 or early in 2014. It's a BMW, which means it will be sporty and handle well. And with a.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

In honor of Earth Day, Rivian has introduced a new “Electric Upgrade” offer, where new customers can take advantage of varying discounts on an R1S or R1T EV for trading in certain combustion models. Eligible Rivian vehicle configurations must be selected and purchased or leased through Rivian’s online Shop.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 20, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Rumors of a 2015 Ford Focus Energi plug-in hybrid emerge, Nissan celebrates 100,000 Leaf electric-car sales, and lease details for the 2014 BMW i3 are released. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Nissan celebrates 100,000 Leaf.'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

When marketing executive Chris Baccus leased a 2015 Fiat 500e three years ago, he intended to keep his 2007 BMW 335i as a "fun car," and use the electric Fiat just for commuting. Within six months, he'd sold the BMW altogether.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

BMW ActiveE. The BMW ActiveE ( earlier post ) will be available for lease in the metropolitan markets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York and Boston as well as the state of Connecticut beginning in Fall 2011 for $499 per month for 24 months with a down payment $2,250. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The e-mail pitch from BMW said, "Electronauts Wanted". The goal was to get several hundred drivers to lease a new electric car, the BMW ActiveE, for two years to give BMW more real-world data on how people use these cars in the real world. The lease offer--with unrestricted mileage--will cost.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 22, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: BMW ActiveE electric cars get crushed, a new Google Glass App for locating charging stations, and a brief history of ethanol in Brazil. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

BMW of North America and Coulomb Technologies announced that drivers of the BMW ActiveE all-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will be able to take advantage of the expansion of the ChargePoint Network into the Boston Metro area. The BMW ActiveE is the BMW Group’s next step towards a mass-produced electric vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Electric cars and organized religion aren't necessarily seen as fellow travelers, but one megachurch is bridging the two in pursuit of its mission. The Resurrection Fellowship Church in Loveland, Colorado, has installed a charging station in its parking lot and leased a BMW i3 for the use of its pastor, Jonathan Wiggins.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 14, 2015

Today, Fisker signs a lease for its new California assembly plant, a new version of the BMW M4 debuts with efficiency-boosting water injection, and England plans to experiment with wireless electric-car charging infrastructure built into roads. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Electric vehicle prices are down 18% so far this month compared to April 2023. Compact cars led the way (17.1%), followed by midsize (16%), pickups (15%), and SUVs (14%). Electric vehicles led the way, with many automakers offering double-digit percentage discounts to clear inventory for new models. lower than last year.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I took possession of my 2009 Mini E electric car (serial number 250) on June 12, 2009. At the time, I signed up for a one year lease, which is all BMW was offering. It was made perfectly clear that after 12 months, we would have to give the car back and that there would be no exceptions.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 27, 2014

One of the earliest electric-car prototype test fleets of the modern day was made up of several hundred MINI E two-seaters, which hit U.S. roads on two-year leases from 2008 through 2010.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Over the years automakers have used a huge array of techniques to entice members of the public to become test drivers in their electric car test programs. Often however, high lease fees combined with the requirement that lesses give back the prototype or limited run electric car at the end of the program put people off taking part.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Mercedes-Benz has seen the sale of its electric vehicles (EVs) increase significantly in the U.S. According to a report from Automotive News citing Edmunds data, Mercedes-Benz battery-electric EQ models took an average of 82 days to sell at dealerships in September. “Our cars need to be ‘want’ cars,” he said.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 24, 2021

Honda Drops Clarity FCEV; BMW & Land Rover Test Prototypes. In the first five months of the year, Honda had only leased less than a thousand cars. BMW & JLR Jump on Board. While BMW said the Hydrogen 7 was “production-ready,” it never made it past limited volume production.

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All Cars Electric

APRIL 18, 2011

The choices among electric cars just keep getting better, as BMW has now announced the lease details for the first stage of its evolution into BMW-branded electric cars. The ActiveE, an all-electric version of the 1-series, will be available for lease requests later this summer.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Like most government agencies, NGOs, and publicly traded companies, Mercedes-Benz has made a promise to be all-electric by 2030. The automaker intends to have every newly launched vehicle architecture be electric-only after 2024 and to gradually wean itself off combustion engines. Our cars need to be 'want' cars," he said.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Back in 2009, the MINI E electric car was BMW''s very first attempt at building a battery-electric vehicle. The fleet of several hundred electric MINIs was leased out to volunteer test drivers in the U.S., to let the company gather data on how drivers used plug-in cars in real-world circumstances.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 2, 2016

Before the BMW i3, there was the MINI E. Along with the BMW ActiveE—based on the 1 Series coupe—this electric version of the second-generation BMW MINI was built to provide real-world testing data that helped form the foundation for i3 electric-car development.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

It looks like Volkswagen may bring the electric hot hatch to the US after all. Even better, Volkswagen wants to launch the electric ID. Volkswagen wants a $25,000 electric ID. Di Si sees the electric ID. 2 electric car , revealed last March (also as a concept). An electric Volkswagen hot hatch in the US?

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If you’re an EV enthusiast, the trend of all-electric models dominating the automotive ad category will continue during this year’s Super Bowl. GM’s all-electric lineup has been a mainstay on Super Bowl Sunday the last four years but decided to pass this year amidst recent development setbacks.

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