BMW to create Electric Mini

500 examples to be shipped to California

Electric Mini

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stillthewhizz

You must do for that sort of response.

July 10, 2008 8:17 pm

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deKub

I hope they do something with in-wheel motors like PML Flightlink has done.

July 13, 2008 7:11 pm

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sovietmole

I seriously think that whoever who wrote this article ought to be sent for extra English lessons

July 11, 2008 12:33 am

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fusion01

What a joke when looking at green power and responsibility by BMW. Manufactured in the UK, shipped to Germany, and then back to the US (East Coast). Then shipped over to the West Coast. The carbon count involved in that mass transit probably equates to a 6.0 litre V8 manufactured and sold in the States. Actually, it's probably WAY HIGHER. As one trans-continental flight can equate to a year's worth of a car's carbon emissions.

July 11, 2008 6:21 am

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BabyMilo

did u no that the prius makes more carbon imissions than a land rover discovery does in it whole life time! that is becuase da prius' battery needs to b shipped around the wolrd

July 11, 2008 10:44 am

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Bremen_Koenigsegg

Just stop it, both of you. Your idiotic banter is the stuff of conspiracy theorists and UFO abductees. You are arguing the carbon count of airplanes and freight liners as though, if BMW didn't undertake this endeavour, such services would not exist. Are you being intentionally obtuse? Consider what 500 EV Minis mean: a significant undertaking by a large automotive manufacturer towards a zero-emissions future. Cars today are an international effort; it is easy to find at least five countries' names listed on the components of any given automobile. If you are going to start counting the molecules of CO2 produced by every individual component's journey, why not tax each mol and see which automaker goes bust first? The problem is not carbon emissions; the problem is the lack of viable alternatives to emitting carbon dioxide.

July 11, 2008 4:09 pm

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DogFalcon

I subscrive your statement!

July 11, 2008 8:34 pm

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gazer23

The battery in an electric car and all the electronics are actually more harmfull to the environment than the pollutants produced by a gas powered car.

July 16, 2008 7:55 am

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deKub

more info please

July 20, 2008 9:00 am

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"The battery in an electric car and all the electronics are actually more harmfull to the environment than the pollutants produced by a gas powered car. " - Please hold your thumb and forefinger 90 degrees apart - and place on your forehead. Moron. You are the same type of person that argues against solar power lest we use up too much of the sun. Get a life and quit whinning about every step forward mankind makes.

August 6, 2008 10:50 pm

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