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BMW ActiveE Safety Recall For Possible Power Steering Failure
BMW is recalling its ActiveE electric cars to replace a potentially faulty component whose failure could leave drivers without power steering. According to the text of the recall, "variations in electrical current" may occur within the electric power steering, leading to a sudden loss of the power...
First Drive: BMW ActiveE Electric Car Prototype
A couple of weeks ago, BMW invited me to come to Munich and take part in the first drive of production versions of the BMW ActiveE, their second battery electric test... October 18, 2011 by Tom Moloughney 2
MINI E Meetup: End Of The Line For Electric Car 'Experiment'
Nauna’s Bella Casa Restaurant in Montclair, N.J., was the venue for the final MINI E Northeast Meetup before the cars must be returned. After a two-year run... October 10, 2011 by Michael Thwaite 3
Electronauts Only Need Apply For 2012 BMW ActiveE Electric Car
Over the years automakers have used a huge array of techniques to entice members of the public to become test drivers in their electric car test programs. Often however, high... September 22, 2011 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 4
BMW's UK MINI E Test Ends: Drivers Happy, But...
A few months after BMW and MINI's electric car study ended in the United States, a similar scheme run in the U.K. has also come to a close, and the results are in... ...and... August 5, 2011 by Antony Ingram 10
BMW ActiveE Electric Car Shown On Leipzig Assembly Line (Video)
You might call it pure propaganda, but confident young BMW worker Mirco Schwarze describes the process of assembling the BMW ActiveE electric car in a way that makes it all... July 18, 2011 by John Voelcker 2
BMW To Provide 4,000 Cars For 2012 Olympics, Electric Cars Included
The 2012 Olympics to be held next summer in London may be the greenest yet, with spectators and many participants moving by mass transit among the various venues. Still... July 15, 2011 by John Voelcker
Are You Electric Car Ready? BMW’s New App Helps You Decide
You may recall earlier this year we wrote about an iPhone app designed to help prospective electric car buyers figure out just how big a battery pack their new electric car... April 22, 2011 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 2
BMW ActiveE Lease Price: $499 A Month For Electric 4-Seater
The choices among electric cars just keep getting better, as BMW has now announced the lease details for the first stage of its evolution into BMW-branded electric cars. The... April 18, 2011 by George Parrott 1
BMW ActiveE Electric Car Priced At $499 Per Month, $2,250 Down
Electric cars, at the moment, cost more to buy than gasoline cars of similar size and with similar features, powertrain excepted. Leases on electric cars from mass-market... April 18, 2011 by John Voelcker 2
BMW Releases More Details, Photos Of ActiveE Electric Car
The BMW ActiveE, first unveiled at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, is BMW's second attempt at an all-electric vehicle. It follows the not-very-pleasant Mini E, of which 600... February 11, 2011 by John Voelcker 2
BMW Green: Plug-In Hybrid Sports Coupe, MegaCity Plant OKed
BMW is moving full steam ahead with its plans to offer new, radically more fuel efficient vehicles in the next decade. Today, the company said it would put its striking... November 5, 2010 by John Voelcker
BMW Announces ActiveE Testing For Key Markets, Starts Summer 2011
As BMW bring to an end the first round of BMW Mini E lease schemes in the U.K, drivers in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Boston and Connecticut... September 24, 2010 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 3
BMW's New Hydrogen Hybrid Mini: Hydrogen, Huh? Oh, REALLY?
Perhaps we're a little cranky this morning, still being on Greenwich Mean Time while the clock says Eastern Daylight. Or maybe we're just cynical. But could everyone please... April 12, 2010 by John Voelcker 3
BMW MegaCity Urban Electric Car To Be Built of Carbon Fiber
We don't know what it looks like yet, but another detail emerged yesterday on BMW's upcoming tiny MegaCity urban electric vehicle: It will be built out of carbon fiber that... April 7, 2010 by John Voelcker 1
BMW Project Megacity: Ultimate (Electric, Urban) Driving Machine?
BMW has now produced two electric cars: the two-seat Mini E, of which 600 examples are on test in the U.S., Europe, and U.K., and the new ActiveE Concept unveiled at last... February 22, 2010 by John Voelcker 3
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