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BMW i Flexible Mobility Program Launches in the US
This picture, captured from BMW's website shows an i3 owner using the Flexible Mobility program and borrowing a gasoline BMW, presumably for a long distance family trip. Nearly two years ago, BMW...
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Breaking: Jacob Harb No Longer Manager of Electric Vehicles at BMW NA
Jacob Harb (left) pictured with Oliver Walter of BMW at the LA Auto Show in 2012I've just learned that Jacob Harb is no longer the Manager of Electric Vehicles for BMW of North America. Harb has held...
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BMW i3 PSA: No, There is Nothing Wrong With Your Battery!
As the temperatures drop, so will your range. That's life with an electric car, but there are ways to minimize the effects of the cold.I remember back to my first year in the MINI-E program. It was...
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462 Mile REx Road Trip: New Jersey to Vermont
We stopped at the Big Moose Deli in New York for some coffee. It's about ten miles from the Vermont border. Perhaps the most discussed topic of the BMW i3 is the implementation of the range extender...
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157,000 Electric Miles Later: We Are Indeed Getting There
Me & my MINI-E in 2009, my ActiveE in 2012 and my i3 in 2014. Five and a half years and over 157,000 electric miles (252,000 km), mostly powered by solar-generated electricity. It's been a little...
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BMW Partners With Volkswagen & ChargePoint. Announces Beginning of Large...
Today at the DC Auto Show, BMW announced they have partnered with Volkswagen and ChargePoint to begin what will be the largest roll out of CCS Fast Charge stations in the US. This first phase will...
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BMW i3 Super Bowl Commercial "Newfangled Idea" Released
Even though the Super Bowl is still about a week away, today BMW released the 60 second i3 commercial which will air during the big game.The commercial begins with a flashback to a live filming of...
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BMW Traffic Spikes 583% on Edmunds.com Following Super Bowl Ad
Note: This article first appeared on BMWBLOGMercedes-Benz and BMW saw the most significant spikes in traffic on Edmunds.com after their ads ran during Super Bowl XLIX.By the end of the game, the...
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Did The DC Quick-Charging 'Standards War' Just Quietly End For Electric Cars?
A BMW i3 and a Volkswagen e-Golf charge on DC fast chargers side by side at BMW Headquarters in Woodcliff Lake NJ.I wrote this article for Green Car Reports, where it was published a few days ago. The...
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i3 Owner Explains Her 312 Mile All Electric Day
Kris charging up at an NRG Fast Charge stationOne of the many things that Tesla Motors understands as well as anybody is how a robust Fast Charge network will liberate their customers from being on an...
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What the Frunk?
The front storage compartment (Frunk) of my i3 after driving a few weeks on the salt-covered winter roads of New Jersey - yuck!First, let me begin by saying I was one of the people who really didn't...
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
One of the things many of us EV drivers are guilty of, is plugging in whenever we have the opportunity to. We may not even need the extra range, but if there is an available 240V EVSE, or even a simple...
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BMW i3: Understanding How Preconditioning Works
Setting the preconditioning feature from the i3's iDrive is simple, but not as intuitive as I believe it could be. You can set the time of departure for every day of the week and the i3 will be...
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Featured EV Product: The JLong
The charging stations at the parking garage in Montclair, NJ are frequently ICE'd. This is a common problem across the country. Quick Charge Power has a solution: The JLong.If you drive an electric...
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Born Electric Guest Blogger: Meet Steve from Washington
Hi! My name is Steve and I was born electric on August 15, 2012.You highly intelligent, super savvy readers may be questioning my sanity. Or, at the very least, fact-checking. And those dubious...
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Q&A with BMW's Jose Guerrero at the New York Auto Show
Jose explaining the features of the concept i3 at the BMW i Born Electric Tour back in 2012Having been in BMW's trial lease e-mobility program for five years, I've been able to get to know many of the...
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Are Megacities Ready For The Megacity Car?
During the i3's development, BMW often used a large city as a backdrop for the concept i3 photo shoots. Megacity: A metropolitan area with a total population in excess of ten million people.BMW has all...
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EV Charger Sharing Made Easy
EV Charging Hangers are a simple, low-cost solution to a nagging problem for some electric vehicle ownersAs recent as six years ago, there were probably less than 3,000 highway-capable electric cars on...
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BMW i3 Year One Celebration
The BMW i3 Year One Celebration in underway across America with various dealerships hosting events, and local owners getting together to celebrate the one year anniversary of the launch of the i3 in...
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Georgia Tax Credit Ending Soon, BMW i3 Owners Rejoice at SAE Combo DCFC Rollout
With the proliferation of electric vehicles like the i3, the absence of a robust fast charge infrastructure becomes more and more difficult to ignore. There are indeed areas of California which are...
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