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 ...

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, ...

Back in time: a gallery of BMW's electric car prototypes through the years
autobloggreen.com 6/26/2009 — Historic BMW Electric Vehicles - Click for high-res image gallery Although the closest thing you can get to an electric car at BMW these days is one with Start & Stop technology, a hybrid ( in the near future ) or, if you're lucky, the Mini E , BMW has a long history of developing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Plug In America criticizes CARB loophole that could help BMW with its MINI E
autobloggreen.com 7/1/2009 — MINI E - click above for high-res image gallery BMW has gotten a lot of press (some bad ) for their MINI E project. Even though the all-electric car comes with a plug, the plug-in advocacy group Plug In America (PIA) has a problem with the way that the Bavarians might be able to get a ...

BMW cranks up the efficiency of hydrogen internal combustion engines
autobloggreen.com 3/12/2009 — BMW has been active in the development of hydrogen as an automotive fuel for many years but they have taken a distinctly different path from virtually every other automaker. Instead of fuel cells, BMW has stuck to internal combustion engines and, rather than compressed gas, it has used ...

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 ...