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UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

Green Car Congress

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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Nissan’s Killer EV App, the Plug-In Car That Puts the Nail in GM’s Coffin

Creative Greenius

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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Coulomb Gets Charged Up

Revenge of the Electric Car

Lowenthal was one of those valley techies who enjoyed personal prosperity in the 1990s. While Lowenthal ordered a Tesla, he has since opted for the Mini E, an all-electric Mini Cooper made by BMW. For Coulomb, the question is whether there will be enough EVs for its ChargePoints.

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