Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2017

It has been nearly ten years since MINI took a significant, pioneering step with the MINI E ( earlier post ) and laid the foundations at the BMW Group for the development of electric mobility solutions to production readiness. More than 600 MINI E cars entered service worldwide for the purpose of the field studies.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Siemens is building up a fleet of 100 electric vehicles for use and testing by employees. Called 4-S (4-Sustainelectromobility), the pilot project is focusing on the interplay between the electric cars and their infrastructure. At the same time, Siemens will set up an in-house electric car-sharing system in Berlin.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 16, 2021

After reporting on top electric vehicle sales in 10 European countries, a reader indicated it would be even more interesting to see the combined sales numbers of different automotive groups or alliances in that region. It was an interesting idea, so I ran with it.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Between 20 to 25% of the potential range of an electric vehicle is lost as a psychological safety buffer, according to a study by a doctoral candidate at Technische Universität Chemnitz in Germany. The MINI E project was funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The BMW ActiveE, first unveiled at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, is BMW's second attempt at an all-electric vehicle. It follows the not-very-pleasant Mini E, of which 600 examples were tested in the U.S. and Europe during 2009 and 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The battery storage system electrified by BMW i is sized so it can be placed in the basement or the garage of a detached house, where the stored energy can either be used for electrically-operated devices in the home or for charging the battery of an electric car. ChargeForward.

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 15, 2009

As you may remember from previous articles, our Editor in Chief Lyle Dennis took delivery of his Mini E electric vehicle many months ago now.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The information gained from this project will contribute to the future plans of manufacturers and their partners to develop low carbon vehicles for the mass market. Modern electric cars offer power and bucket loads of torque. Electricity providers E.ON Electric Vehicle Accelerated Development in the North East is a £10.7-million

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The second generation of MINI, introduced in 2000, optimized the relationship between fun driving and fuel consumption, including the introduction of diesel engines. In 2008, MINI was a trailblazer for electromobility in the BMW Group. Electrified vehicles now account for 10% of MINI sales.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 29, 2009

There is an existing market for electric vehicles, especially among those who can afford the extra cost of limited-production new technology vehicles. There are no cars for sale. For years BMW disparaged electric cars, and poured money into liquid hydrogen ICE vehicles and promoted them ad nauseum.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

We are an on-line community of people who are passionate about Electric Vehicles and we’re not shy about it. "Revenge of the Electric Car" director, Chris Payne, in his new Tesla. There’s also a page that shows the Best Content from Revenge of the Electric Car based on social signals.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

BMW will use media days at the Los Angeles auto show, which begin on November 29, to unveil a new electric car that's never before been seen. The electric model that will debut in California wasn't otherwise specified in the German maker's announcement, which called it simply "a world premiere vehicle."

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 9, 2010

Smart will be launching a test fleet of 250 electric cars in selected areas, including: Portland, San Jose, Indianapolis, Orlando, and the Washington, D.C. Read more in the article: Smart to Launch Test Fleet of Electric Cars. Smart also is joining a growing group of auto makers betting on electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2011

AC Propulsion has delivered an AC Propulsion-powered eBox to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where it will be used to evaluate Vehicle to Grid (V2G) operation as part of a research program. Integration between the power grid and electric vehicles will become essential and beneficial as EV numbers increase over the next decade.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 25, 2009

Some of the participants in the UK Government’s electric car trial have expressed their enthusiasm at earning funding to be part of the scheme. “Smart has been conducting real-life trials of 100 electric cars with partner companies across the country since 2007,&# he said.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2009

The BMW Group is organizing its electrical and urban mobility efforts within project i, an initiative from its Number ONE strategy. 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. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

BMW has certainly been making its mark in the electric car sector over the last few months with announcements about the BMW i3 and BMW i8. However, it is now looking at the next stage of life for two of its longest running electric vehicles. The MINI E (pictured top) and the BMW ActiveE (pictured b[.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Ford has done it's share of electric cars, including the Ranger EV and Th!nk nk City that were its ZEV mandate cars in the '90s. As with the BMW MINI E , what is stunning, if not surprising, is how quickly a decent fully electric vehicle can be put on the road. All eyes are fixed on 2011.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 9, 2010

According to BMW, the exact size of the fleet has not yet been determined but it will be at least as large as the MINI E fleet that consists of 450 MINI Es on [.].

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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., But these are just preludes.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 23, 2009

A UK-wide trial of electric cars has been launched. Ministers gathered at London’s Guildhall this morning to unveil the range of electric and low carbon technology vehicles to be used in the trails. Cars set to be used in the trial include the Mini E, the Mitsubishi iMiEV and the electric smart ed.

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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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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2021

4 is mopping up in Europe (and also the only fully electric Volkswagen available in the USA). We publish monthly plugin electric vehicle sales reports for several European countries and Europe […]. The Volkswagen ID.3 3 seems like it just hit the market, but the attention has already shifted to the Volkswagen ID.4,

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

April sales figures are in for electric vehicle models in 10 European countries — Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark. The site EU-EVs.com have pulled the figures together, and I’ve created some charts of the April and January–April figures for this article.

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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. second range.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

old question for electric cars – When will electric cars make a real. presence in the world’s two largest passenger car markets (China and the. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 3, 2010

A new Federal Grant will enable many electric vehicle early adopters to get their chargers for free. (A Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. Read more in the article: Get in Line for 4,600 Free Electric Car Battery Chargers. A $2,000 value!). A $2,000 value!).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 12, 2010

BMW MegaCity Urban Electric Car To Be Built of Carbon Fiber. BMW MegaCity Urban Electric Car To Be Built of Carbon Fiber. To test components and gain real-world experience with EVs, BMW has produced two electric cars. The first was the two-seat Mini E, of which 600 examples are on test in the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Components of the MINI E powertrain. BMW handed over forty electric MINI E cars to their test drivers on Sunday—all members of the public—in the start of two consecutive six-month field trial periods which will evaluate the psychological, social and technical aspects of living with an electric car.

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Green Cars News

JULY 11, 2009

Reports in The Irish Times suggest that Nissan is just weeks away from unveiling an electric vehicle to the masses. The newspaper got a glimpse of the EV-02 (the Nissan Cube) at Nissan’s headquarters outside Geneva and found it drives better than most electric cars its journalists have already driven.

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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. MINI E specification and performance.

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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. An large amount of data was collected electronically by data-loggers in the car and the home charging points, and also from extensive driver research carried out by Oxford Brookes University. MINI E Trial in numbers. 40 MINI Es.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2009

The BMW MINI E is one of the most exciting and head turning electric car concepts and now it is being put to the test thanks to a partnership between BMW and the University of California at Davis. US field trials of the MINI E are already under way for two months, with BMW gathering data from the 450 MINI E drivers.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 24, 2009

As reported in the NY Times, “Chinese leaders have adopted a plan aimed at turning the country into one of the leading producers of hybrid and all-electric vehicles within three years, and making it the world leader in electric cars and buses after that.” The effort to get cars to market must remain our focus.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

At an event held at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London Gordon Murray Design unveiled its latest ultra-compact electric city vehicle, the T.27 27 ( earlier post ), along with the updated specification and performance targets for the car. 27 electric vehicle. 27 The design and development program for the T.27

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