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. MINI E drivers who loved driving electric--which is to say, many of them--were offered replacement BMW ActiveE electric cars, and the electric MINIs were taken.'

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The BMW Group and Great Wall Motor have launched a new joint venture—Spotlight Automotive Limited—and are building a joint plant in China, where the BMW Group will produce future fully-electric models of its MINI brand.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 12, 2009

Stefano Paris at the November 19th, 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show unveiling of the MINI E. If you’ve been following the BMW MINI E program unveiled officially on November 19th, 2008 at the Los Angeles Auto Show you’ll know the process for being selected as a potential MINI E driver is a multistep one.

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InsideEVs

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Mini is a new folding e-bike from Mihogo which has just been launched on Indiegogo. It’s designed for city-dwellers looking for an easy ride around town.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 27, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Tesla Model S taxis (in Norway), the possibilities of carbon-capture technology for cars, and how to lease a 2009 MINI E in 2014. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The Carice Electric Sports Car is tiny and beautiful, but it''s also kind of expensive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2010

The BMW Group has begun accepting applications for drivers to participate in the electric MINI-E trial in Munich, a joint project of the BMW Group, Siemens and the Stadtwerke München (SWM). Applicants must be resident in Munich or the surrounding area and have access to a private parking space. The monthly lease fee is €400 (US$517).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

While the exact size of the fleet has yet to be confirmed, BMW said, it will be at least as large as the MINI E fleet which is currently in operation. There are 450 MINI Es on the road in the US right now, being driven by a group of individuals and select fleet users.

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Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The MINI-E program is going well enough that BMW is considering allowing leases extensions, Richard Steinberg the program manager said at CARB's ZEV Technology Symposium today. Tags: BMW bmw mini e.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 6, 2009

BMW’s just held an event for the lessees of their Mini E at the Science Center, next to the University of Southern California, a really stellar venue when you consider the product they were showing. orders of magnitude faster than the 95 mph Mini E. This sleek, titanium marvel can travel at mach 3.2,

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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., Europe, China, and the U.K. to let the company gather data on how drivers used plug-in cars in real-world circumstances.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 10, 2011

was the venue for the final MINI E Northeast Meetup before the cars must be returned. After a two-year run, BMW’s MINI E adventure is nearing its end. The car may seem old hat to people like Tom Moloughney, who has clocked over 65,000 miles on his MINI E--and who hosted the event at his.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 1, 2009

AC Propulsion, the San Dimas, CA, company that birthed the modern-day EV with its AC-150 drive train, was tapped by BMW last year to provide drivetrains for an initial run of 500 Minis. Dubbed the “Mini E,&# these fully-electric cars are just weeks from being deployed on the streets of Southern Californai, New York, and New Jersey.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 6, 2009

Reliable sources inform your Creative Greenius that Manhattan Beach is about to be named the first Southern California city to be part of BMW’s test of the new plug-in Mini E, the EV version of the popular Mini Cooper. Paul Scott of Plug-In America and Wally Rippel of AC Propulsion w/new Mini E (photo (c) Paul Scott).

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 31, 2009

The first consumer with a Mini E lease, Peter Trepp, was interviewed on CNBC. Tags: peter trepp bmw mini e cnbc. The vroom- obsessed anchor concludes with an erroneous and unprofessional "gotcha" about coal. The report exudes such bias, you may want to let CNBC know how you feel here.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

The BMW Group has been gathering insights into the day-to-day use of electric vehicles since mid-2009, when it launched a global field test involving more than 600 MINI E models. During the test phase some 50 MINI E cars are also being delivered to customers in China in 2010. Earlier post.)

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Mini and Angell have teamed up to create the new Mini E-Bike 1, of which only 1,959 examples will ever be launched.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 1, 2009

The BMW Mini E has hit the streets. Barely one year ago, word surfaced that an electric Mini was in the works. The Mini E team was said to have little familiarity with electric cars, and the enthusiastic dealer sales people had their energy challenged by consumers’ frustrated eagerness and corporate indifference.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2011

drivers who were picked to test the BMW Mini E between June 2009 and June 2010 are one happy bunch. The 450 lucky U.S. They love their cars, they like electric driving in general, they're willing to overlook the car's faults, and they willingly talk not only to BMW but also amongst themselves about it all.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

Tags: Production News BMW MINI E.

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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 Cars News

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

BMW could revive its Mini E electric car, according to BMW Blog, as the carmaker looks to expand the use of its i3 electric drivetrain. The limited production Mini E was launched in 2009 as a research vehicle and used extensively in road trials across Europe, including the CABLED programme here in[.].

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Green Cars News

MARCH 31, 2011

The trials of the MINI E aren’t over yet, with BMW Group and Vattenfall Europe now entering a second phase of testing in Berlin. A total of 70 MINI E electric cars have been transferred to private customers (30 units) and fleet users (40 units). Around 20 users will also be able to take advantage [.].

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All Cars Electric

JANUARY 5, 2011

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. In addition, BMW has told MINI E drivers that it is working on a.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

But the Propella Mini e-bike takes the brand to a whole new level with its smallest and lightest model yet. more… The post Propella Mini launched as lightweight electric bike for space-limited riders on a budget appeared first on Electrek.

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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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All Cars Electric

AUGUST 5, 2011

A few months after BMW and MINI's electric car study ended in the United States, a similar scheme run in the U.K. Basically, all the drivers loved driving the MINI E, as you. has also come to a close, and the results are in.and if you've read the results of the American tests, the figures coming from the U.K.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 7, 2011

It is the most in-depth trial of its kind – and now BMW has released data from the MINI E testing across theUKthat involved 62 members of the public and 76 pool users. A vast amount of data was collected as part of the trial with the early results already being used to influence the [.].

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 26, 2010

In the case of the Mini E, BMW offered data to back up the claim. At the Washington Auto Show today, BMW released early results from a study of 57 customers who leased its Mini E electric vehicle, conducted with the.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

Tags: Production News BMW MINI E.

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 14, 2011

After nearly two years of BMW Mini E testing and countless hours of feedback sessions from test participants, BMW is just about to start its second round of electric car testing with its 1-series based Active-E. BMW can’t be accused of rushing into the electric car market.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Mini USA has opened the order banks for the 2020 Mini Cooper SE, the brand’s first electric car in many years, a revival of the formula that earned a lot of enthusiasm a decade ago in the Mini E, and its first to be mass-produced.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost all of the participants in the recent MINI E trails (96 per cent) said they would consider buying an electric car as a result of their positive experiences of using the electrified model. The trial, run by MINI’s parent firm, BMW ended back in March. Lasting six months and giving 62 members of the [.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Mini has been on a roll this year, with a new Coupe concept to celebrate its 50th birthday and the much-publicized U.S. release of 200 Mini E electric conversions.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 14, 2009

BMW has handed over 40 electric MINI E vehicles to test drivers at the start of two consecutive six-month field trial periods meant to evaluate the social, psychological and technical aspects of [.]. A fresh take on one of the most iconic designs in motoring will play a central role in the UK-wide trial of electric cars.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 17, 2010

Customers trailing the new electric MINI around the world don’t want to give them back- that’s what BMW’s chairman Norbert Reithofer told news agency Headline auto. Reithofer said: "Some drivers have told me they would love to keep their MINI E.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Feedback from the first trials of the Mini E has been released, as the carmaker embarks on a second six month trial of its electric model. Tags: MINI BMW electric MINI E.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

BMW Group and Vattenfall have started a new research project on the secondary use of high-voltage EV batteries using batteries from the MINI E and the BMW ActiveE as stationary power storage.

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