BMW will offer up to 700 urbanites an electric 1 series lease
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Eco Autos.
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , BMW , Europe/EU , USA BMW ActiveE concept – Click above for high-res image gallery BMW said recently that participants in the Mini E lease program were ” Delighted with [the] Electric Vehicle Experience .” The Mini E, though, will probably seem totally lame compared to the production version of the BMW ActiveE concept (an all-electric 1 Series). After all, who doesn’t like a rear seat
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BMW will offer up to 700 urbanites an electric 1 series lease
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Eco Autos.
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , BMW , Europe/EU , USA BMW ActiveE concept – Click above for high-res image gallery BMW said recently that participants in the Mini E lease program were ” Delighted with [the] Electric Vehicle Experience .” The Mini E, though, will probably seem totally lame compared to the production version of the BMW ActiveE concept (an all-electric 1 Series). After all, who doesn’t like a rear seat? Oh, and the 100 mile range per charge and a 90 mile per hour top speed aren’t bad, either
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BMW will offer up to 700 urbanites an electric 1 series lease
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Eco Autos.
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , BMW , Europe/EU , USA BMW ActiveE concept – Click above for high-res image gallery BMW said recently that participants in the Mini E lease program were ” Delighted with [the] Electric Vehicle Experience .” The Mini E, though, will probably seem totally lame compared to the production version of the BMW ActiveE concept (an all-electric 1 Series). After all, who doesn’t like a rear seat? Oh, and the 100 mile range per charge and a 90 mile per hour top speed aren’t bad, either
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BMW will offer up to 700 urbanites an electric 1 series lease
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Eco Autos.
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , BMW , Europe/EU , USA BMW ActiveE concept – Click above for high-res image gallery BMW said recently that participants in the Mini E lease program were ” Delighted with [the] Electric Vehicle Experience .” The Mini E, though, will probably seem totally lame compared to the production version of the BMW ActiveE concept (an all-electric 1 Series). After all, who doesn’t like a rear seat? Oh, and the 100 mile range per charge and a 90 mile per hour top speed aren’t bad, either.
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Transonic gets Supercritical with fuel injection, claims 50-75% improvement
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Eco Autos.
Filed under: Emerging Technologies , MPG Generally speaking, we don’t like the idea of being Supercritical. Being critical is bad enough without super-ing it, right? Apparently, though, being Supercritical with fuel is a good thing, as a company called Transonic is reporting that it has managed to boost the efficiency of an internal combustion engine in its testing by 50 to 75 percent.
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Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Geneva Motor Show IED Tesla EYE concept – Click above for high-res image gallery The gaping openings on the front of the EYE design study vehicle from the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin ( IED ) that is on display at the Geneva Motor Show this week would cause troublesome impacts on airflow if they were on a real electric car, we think. In the fantasyland of the auto show floor, though, they give the concept vehicle a menacing, moose-like nose (wait, does that make sense?).
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Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Geneva Motor Show IED Tesla EYE concept – Click above for high-res image gallery The gaping openings on the front of the EYE design study vehicle from the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin ( IED ) that is on display at the Geneva Motor Show this week would cause troublesome impacts on airflow if they were on a real electric car, we think. In the fantasyland of the auto show floor, though, they give the concept vehicle a menacing, moose-like nose (wait, does that make sense?). At least we can hope that the 11 transportation design master course students from IED who worked with Tesla Motors ‘ chief designer Franz von Holzhausen on the project enjoyed the process.
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Europcar pre-orders 500 electric vehicles from Renault, coming to rental fleets in 2011
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Eco Autos.
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Europe/EU Avis isn’t the only rental car company interested in Renault’s electric vehicles (EVs). Europcar announced last fall that it would work with the Renault – Nissan alliance to put EVs into the rental fleet in Europe (and Australia and New Zealand) sometime in 2010. The rental agency has now pre-ordered 500 EVs from Renault and says they will be delivered to fleets in Europe’s largest cities sometime in third quarter of 2011
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Getting zero mpg (i.e., idling) could cost drivers £20 in North Lincolnshire, UK
Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Eco Autos.
Filed under: Legislation and Policy , Green Daily , UK Local governments in the UK are certainly pro-active when it comes to cracking down on CO2. In 2008, the West Sussex Council in the UK considered leveling
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Getting zero mpg (i.e., idling) could cost drivers £20 in North Lincolnshire, UK
Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Eco Autos.
Filed under: Legislation and Policy , Green Daily , UK Local governments in the UK are certainly pro-active when it comes to cracking down on CO2. In 2008, the West Sussex Council in the UK considered leveling
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