Showing posts with label all electric bmw. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Lotus gets ready for multi-model launch

Lotus is pretty tight-lipped about what its plans are these days, though it is clear its ambitions are great.
"There's going to be a lot happening at Paris," Mr Doyle says - though exactly what it will unveil at the biennial motor show in October remains secret.
But one thing is clear.
"We're going to expand the model range quite significantly," Mr Doyle says.
The car world is awash with rumours about what Lotus will do and if expectations are met it will certainly create waves.
Lotus is expected to unveil four new concept cars, a notable number given that nothing significantly new has come from the company in more than a decade, with the obvious exception of the recently launched four-seater Evora.
'Old' and 'New' Lotus:
The concepts expected to be on display at the Paris motor show are said to be a mixture of "Old Lotus" and "New Lotus".
"Old Lotus" models might include an updated and perhaps more comfortable version of the Lotus Seven, which was built between 1957 and 1972, as well as a new version of the Esprit supercar, which was built between 1976 and 2004.

Sunday, 1 August 2010

Biofuels left out as automakers go electric

In the race to replace oil, electric cars seem to be leaving biofuels in the dust.

Five years ago, biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel looked like the best bet for breaking the world's addiction to oil. Biorefineries turning corn into ethanol sprouted across the Midwest, while startups trying to make fuel from wood chips or grass soaked up venture capital. Big automakers considered electric cars a lost cause.
Now the situation has been reversed. The buzz surrounding electric transportation has never been louder, while the biofuel industry struggles to regain momentum after two brutal years.
By the end of 2010, two global automakers will start selling plug-in cars priced for the mass market. Nissan will introduce the all-electric Leaf, while General Motors offers the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid that runs solely on batteries for the first 40 miles of every trip. Automakers as different as Ford, Toyota and Porsche all have plans to go electric.





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Wednesday, 7 July 2010

BMW's drive down electric avenue

BMW is investing a lot into developing its Megacity car, being produced under the auspices of a futuristic sounding Project i – but will the car it produces bear the BMW badge?
SOMETIMES being first isn’t being clever. It is a statement I put to Ulrich Kranz, who heads the almost Hollywood-movie-sounding Project i, BMW’s cross-departmental think-tank. It was created to redesign, rework and reboot the way we think about electric vehicles and perhaps urban transportation overall.
By the time 2013 rolls around, BMW, a brand that prides itself on innovation, might be just another brand, launching just another electric car, with Nissan’s much-hyped Leaf, Renault’s Fluence EV and Opel’s Ampera likely to be pretty common on our roads.
But does BMW know something the others don’t? You would have to wonder, with BMW beating the hydrogen technology drum for so long, whether perhaps all this huge investment, relatively late in the game in electric cars, is somewhat reactionary?

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Friday, 4 June 2010

All-electric BMW by 2013

BMW will launch its first all-electric vehicle in 2013 – and is planning to create a sub-brand to market it.

However, although the company is currently trialling electric versions of the Mini and 1 Series, it is the as-yet-unseen Megacity urban electric vehicle project which will make it to showrooms first.

'It will be sold under the BMW name but as a sub-brand, and we are currently deciding what that sub-brand will be called,' said Ian Robertson, the board member in charge of sales and marketing.

Robertson confirmed that the car would carry the iconic blue-and-white BMW propeller badge and have a carbonfibre passenger cell. BMW has gone into partnership with an American company to set up a carbonfibre production plant in Washington state.


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