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Rumour: BMW to Make Full Electric Car by 2012
It is said that BMW has plans for making full electric vehicles, as new Californian laws force the cars manufacturers to have a significant electric vehicles offer for the market beginning with 2012. They plan to make Li-Ion powered car, with two seats (90% of the time only one is used in practice). The car [...]
Toyota says “no” to Diesel hybrids
Katsuaki Watanabe, Toyota’s president, said in a speech held at the Geneva Motor Show that their company will not produce diesel hybrids in the near future, even if the competition does. For example, VW has in plan to produce its Golf Diesel Hybrid. Similar examples are offered by Mercedes Benz and BMW.
At the Detroit Auto [...]
Crazy: 644 Horsepower Hybrid MiniCooper
A UK-based company, PML, has modified the famous Mini so it goes from 0-60 in about 4 seconds, overpassing the Porsche Carrera 911, having 640hp and… nothing unusual until now. So it’s got the ZAP-X that I was writing about. But this crazy little bee or buzz or even mosquito is electric!! An electric Mini… [...]
BMW X6 Active Hybrid Concept
The BMW guys did it again. Now they have BMW X6 Active Hybrid Concept, a car made for long roads and smart moves. Labeled a Sports Activity Coupe, the X6 ActiveHybrid visually and dynamically captures the essence of BMW’s brand. Its striking style and unique paint-job and wheel combination work to set it apart from [...]
BMW X3 Hybrid announced to launch in 2008
BMW, considered by some critics to be the best car manufacturer in the world, is jumping on the hybrid bandwagon with the Concept X3 EfficientDynamics. In contrast to the gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles from Toyota, Honda, and Ford, the X3 uses high-performance capacitors (”Super Caps”) to store and supply electric energy to the vehicle’s well-packaged “Active [...]
BMW X6 Hybrid Concept expected in mid-2008
Despite our initial, negative thoughts after seeing several spy shots, we actually liked BMW’s “Sports Activity Coupe” considering it – believe it or not, as one of the best Bungle-era designed bimmers. Heck, maybe this is what the X5 should have looked like in the first place. And if you’re wondering, BMW said that the [...]
