2012 / 2013 BMW City / Project i - Car News
caranddriver.com 7/21/2009 — Having the right products in the right niches might be the key to sales success for automakers when the economy emerges from its stay in the ICU. BMW’s plan is to develop a super-efficient car family code-named “Project i.” The first car will be ...

Mini Electric Car Drivers: BMW “Botched” Program
hybridcars.com 7/23/2009 — As we reported last month , BMW has encountered several problems with its program to evaluate the all-electric Mini E. The program continues to stumble as a growing number of volunteers—who are leasing the Mini E for $850 a month for a year—are going ...

BMW Z10 ED: the eco-supercar
autocar.co.uk 1/29/2009 — Latest News Plans for an advanced green BMW supercar, the BMW Z10 ED, have been revealed. The two-seat BMW Z10 ED, a product of the company’s secretive Technik division, will be BMW’s flagship. It is being developed as a showcase for new drivelines, ...

BMW considering range of two-, three- and four-wheelers for Project i
autobloggreen.com 5/7/2009 — BMW Clever concept - Click above for an image gallery Back in the summer of 2007, BMW and the University of Bath put their combined heads together and designed a vehicle called the Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transportation, or Clever for short. Using just 3 wheels and an ...

Megacity will be BMW's first to use carbon fiber "on a large scale"
green.autoblog.com 10/29/2009 — The idea that BMW's line of electric vehicles will cater to the same premium buyers as the company's other vehicles seems more assured with today's announcement that it has established a joint venture with SGL Group to produce carbon fiber and textile semi-finished products for "vehicle ...

Dow Jones names BMW the greenest automaker, again
green.autoblog.com 9/6/2009 — BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics Concept - click above for high-res image gallery There's a lot of competition to be seen as the world's greenest automaker - just look at the branding efforts surrounding the Prius or the Chevy Volt for examples - but if you look at the way an automaker ...

German agency names BMW/MINI most fuel efficient premium brands
autobloggreen.com 3/1/2009 — Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 MINI Cooper S Convertible The Federal Motor Transport Authority in Germany has declared BMW and MINI as the most fuel efficient premium brands available in that market. The agency has calculated fleet average fuel economy for all new cars ...

BMW throws big cash on the hoods of its U.S. diesel offerings
autobloggreen.com 7/23/2009 — 2009 BMW 335d - Click above for high-res gallery When Chrysler started its new "Double CA$H For Your Old Car" promotion that included up to $4,500 in incentives on select vehicles, we weren't that surprised. After all, there are plenty of Chrysler products with at least that much cash on ...

BMW adaptive navigation system helps save fuel
autobloggreen.com 3/9/2009 — There are already numerous navigation systems available now that can download traffic data and compare it against route information programmed by the driver. But what if you know where you're going and don't program the nav? That's what BMW is working to address with a new experimental system. ...

New BMW 5-series GT gets more efficient 6-cylinder turbo engine
autobloggreen.com 5/28/2009 — Following last week's announcement of the production version of the new BMW 5-series Gran Turismo comes a new more fuel efficient engine variant. For the last two years, BMW has offered a twin turbocharged 3.0-liter inline 6-cylinder engine in the 335i, 535i and X5. When the new 535i Gran ...

L.A. Sheriffs To Use Electric Mini Coopers — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 6/23/2009
LA County Sheriffs stuck driving Crown Vics are about to be left feeling tragically un-hip. Their Board of Sups just approved a deal with BMW to lease 17 fully electric MINI Coopers.