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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 MINIE automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.
MINIE customers, based primarily in Los Angeles with a few in the New York City-area, will participate in the study. With the US field trials of the MINI Es already underway for two months, BMW is already gathering data from the 450 drivers of MINIE electric-powered vehicles. miles on a single charge.)
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