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).

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Mini E Plug-in Plug Green 150

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.

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Energy Storage BMW Energy Battery 210

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.

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BMW Concept Detroit 2010 225

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.

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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.

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Grid BMW Las Vegas Charging 150

Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Next day, the first order of business/pleasure was heading to the Tesla Store in West LA to test-drive the Tesla Roadster. I did however find it interesting to find out what the automakers had to promise on the EV front from BMW’s MINI E to Mitsubishi’s iMiEV. drivetrain. Our trip was almost over.

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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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Carbon Fiber BMW Carbon Mitsubishi 133