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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.)
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.
The MINIE. As the second half of the twelve-month MINIE field trial begins in the UK this week, BMW has released an overview of the outcome of interviews and objective data collected from the first three months of the December to June 2010 phase of the trial. The MINIE is a two-seat development of the MINI Hatch.
Components of the MINIE powertrain. BMW handed over forty electric MINIE cars to their test drivers on Sunday—all members of the public—in the start of two consecutive six-month field trial periods which will evaluate the psychological, social and technical aspects of living with an electric car. The MINIE.
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Stefano Paris at the November 19th, 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show unveiling of the MINIE. If you’ve been following the BMW MINIE program unveiled officially on November 19th, 2008 at the Los Angeles Auto Show you’ll know the process for being selected as a potential MINIE driver is a multistep one.
While the exact size of the fleet has yet to be confirmed, BMW said, it will be at least as large as the MINIE 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.
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).
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 MINIE models. During the test phase some 50 MINIE cars are also being delivered to customers in China in 2010. Earlier post.)
One of the earliest electric-car prototype test fleets of the modern day was made up of several hundred MINIE two-seaters, which hit U.S. MINIE 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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BMW’s just held an event for the lessees of their MiniE 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 MiniE. This sleek, titanium marvel can travel at mach 3.2,
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The BMW Group released the data from the MINIE field trial in the UK. MINIE Trial in numbers. 40 MINI Es. The MINIE. The MINIE is a two-seat development of the familiar MINI Hatch, powered by a 204hp electric motor that also generates 220 N·m of torque. Earlier post.)
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I took possession of my 2009 MiniE 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.
Back in 2009, the MINIE 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.
The BMW MiniE has hit the streets. Barely one year ago, word surfaced that an electric Mini was in the works. The MiniE 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.
drivers who were picked to test the BMW MiniE 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.
BMW Group and Vattenfall have started a new research project on the secondary use of high-voltage EV batteries using batteries from the MINIE and the BMW ActiveE as stationary power storage.
The results of the study, which also suggested that assistance systems could reduce the size of that buffer, were based on more than 400,000 km (249,000 miles) of user experience gathered in the research project “MINIE Berlin powered by Vattenfall”. During the field study a total of 79 users drove the MINIE for six months.
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BMW has already gathered data from more than 16 million kilometers (10 million miles) of testing with the MINIE (its first EV model) and about 5 million kilometers (3 million miles) with the BMW ActiveE (its second EV model). BMW’s first series production EV, the i3, is slated to enter the market at the end of this year.
It has been nearly ten years since MINI took a significant, pioneering step with the MINIE ( earlier post ) and laid the foundations at the BMW Group for the development of electric mobility solutions to production readiness. More than 600 MINIE cars entered service worldwide for the purpose of the field studies.
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 MINIE, 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.
The worldwide MINIE fleet trial was extended to China at the beginning of the year, involving the sites of Beijing and Shenzhen. The very first German-Chinese research project, a co-operative venture with Tongji University in Shanghai, saw the development of a purely electrically powered BMW 5 Series in the long wheelbase version.
The feedback from customers testing the MINIE and the BMW ActiveE will be fed directly into series production of the BMW i3. Beginning this year a test fleet of more than 1,100 BMW ActiveE vehicles on the road in the US, Europe and China will provide further valuable insights into the everyday use of the vehicle.
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