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).
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.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 4, 2015
The program also includes a “second life” for used MINI E batteries, repurposing these batteries into a stationary solar-powered electric storage system located at the BMW Technology Office in Mountain View, California.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 5, 2015
In the managed charge pilot program, select BMW i3 owners will allow PG&E to request a delay in the charging of their vehicles by up to an hour, when grid loads are at their peak. EV battery “second life” system using MINI E vehicle batteries.
Creative Greenius
AUGUST 13, 2009
Luckily no one was really at Plug-In 2009 to hear the Three Car Stooges at this point, they don’t have any pleasant surprises in store for us. Same truth of engineers who have actually talked to real drivers is in evidence with the BMW Mini-E. The Mitsubishi i-MiEV, only here because SCE is testing it.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 17, 2009
The BMW Concept ActiveE follows the all-electric MINI E as the second large-scale electric vehicle test program to be conducted in the hands of interested customers. The aim is to produce a fleet to a scale which will exceed that of the MINI E.
Revenge of the Electric Car
APRIL 12, 2010
All MegaCity cars will run solely on electricity stored in a 16-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack. The first was the two-seat Mini E, of which 600 examples are on test in the U.S., Cells come from a joint venture of German parts maker Bosch and Korean conglomerate Samsung. Early tests. Europe, and U.K.
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