BMW to make electric Mini. Only in California. Only 500 of them.
source: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/bmw-electric-mini-cooper-california.php
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- MrBigShot21
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Electric Mini Cooper: glass half-full or half-empty? Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Following VW's announcement that it would make a limited number of its 1-Liter 282 MPG car, BMW says that it will build 500 electric Mini Coopers for the Californian market. Now the optimist might say: "That's great! They're more likely to go from limited to full production than from nothing to production!". The pessimist is probably thinking: "Ok, California has a mandate for automakers to make 7,500 zero-emissions cars by 2014. That's probably why we're seeing the Honda FCX hydrogen car in that state, and now BMW will pull a GM EV1 on us."
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Stradius
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Count me on the pessimist side. They'll do the bare-minimum when they KNOW that the BMW Mini-Electric would be a HUGE success in sales.
Only time will tell.
- 3 years ago
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Stradius
