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BMW to Test Electric Powered MINIs
Over the next year and a half, BMW will test a series of electric-powered MINI models in real life conditions, the company announced today. The MINIs will be built in the company’s Oxford plant in the U.K. without engines and transmissions and then shipped to BMW’s headquarters in Munich, Germany where they will be fitted with an electric powertrain. The Bavarian automaker said that it will build and test several hundred of electric MINIs in order to evaluate the viability of a mass production version. Pic: Carscoop
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Seat Unveils New Pure Electric And Plug-in Hybrid Prototypes
Seat has introduced two new eco-friendly prototype models, the Altea XL Electric Ecomotive, which is an all-electric zero-emission version of its mid-size MPV, and the Leon TwinDrive Ecomotive, a plug-in hybrid variant of its C-segment hatchback. A test...
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Bmw Activee: Production Version Of All-electric 1-series To Debut At Geneva Show
The ActiveE is the production version of BMW's 2010 Detroit Motor Show EV concept of the same name and it will share the limelight with the Vision CD Roadster study at the Bavarian firm's Geneva Salon stand. BMW plans to build a test fleet of...
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Video: All-electric Mini 'e' Laps The Nurburgring Circuit In Under 10 Minutes
A lightly modified race-spec version of the all-electric MINI 'E' completed a lap of the legendary 20.8 km-long "Green Hell" in a time of 09:51.45 minutes recording a top speed of 187 km/h or 116mph, the BMW Group announced today. At...
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Breaking: Mini Officially Confirms Series-production Of Coupe And Speedster Models!
We've yet to see the MINI Coupe Concept in the flesh - let alone it's Speedtser twin that has yet to be revealed, but parent company BMW officially confirmed today that both models will enter series production and that they are to be built at...
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Happy Birthday! Mini Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Exactly fifty years ago today, the first Mini rolled off the company's production line at Cowley, now called Plant Oxford. To mark the iconic model's birthday, the British firm displayed the first Mini Minor finished in Old English White and carrying...
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