Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2009
The majority of the vehicles are electric, with a small number being plug-in gasoline-electric hybrids. The research will include a focus on domestic recharging behavior over a 12-month period. MINI E Research Project. The government investment will support the investment already made by the consortia themselves.
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.
Creative Greenius
AUGUST 5, 2009
Check out the new Nissan Leaf on video: You’ve got to love the fact that Nissan had balls and the vision to bank their future on full on electric vehicles, leapfrogging their Japanese competition Honda and Toyota whose timid and safe bet on hybrids has already marked them as bridge technology car makers. Really Ford? Are you kidding me?
Revenge of the Electric Car
MAY 17, 2010
BMW’s Mini is rolling out its electric car in three phases. In 2008 the company released a test fleet of 450 Mini-E vehicles and is getting ready to announce its second phase. predicts that pure-electric vehicles will account for more than 1 percent of the market by 2014; hybrids and plug-in hybrids, 24 percent.
Green Cars News
JULY 28, 2009
For example, Toyota has announced plans to manufacture the hybrid Auris in the UK (see article ) at its Derbyshire factory as it bids to make more European motorists switch from increasingly clean diesel vehicles to low emission technology. What’s more is that Britain’s car industry has a reputation for producing “gas guzzlers”.
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.
Green Car Congress
JULY 29, 2011
The i8 Concept features a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) drive with a system output of 260 kW and a range of up to 35 km (22 miles)in all-electric mode. The space requirements of the electric motor used in the BMW i3 Concept have been reduced by 40% compared with the motor used in the MINI E. Optional range extender. i8 Concept.
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