UK next in line for MINI E testing?
Click above for a high res gallery of the MINI E
It's no surprise that there is a lot of demand for the all-electric version of the MINI. We heard that London might get some of the limited-supply MINI E's last fall, but now the Telegraph is saying that a plug-in version of the MINI could be "on sale in Britain" by the end of 2009 (we assume the lease-only model for these cars will continue). If MINI's test program does move to the UK, it would expand the test areas beyond Germany and the U.S. to the iconic car's home turf. That's fitting, no?
As for the already-announced test locations, the New York and LA participants should be getting their MINI Es in the next few weeks while Berlin and Munich residents need to wait until later this spring.
Gallery: Electric MINI E
[Source: Telegraph]
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Sydney 12:27AM (3/07/2009)
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Zeph 3:55PM (3/07/2009)
Can't they just sell the damn thing already? How much testing does this crappy little car have to do? This is begining to look like the original EV1. Lot's of leases, then when the companies realise that the viehicle is too good for consumers on a cost per mile and total cost of ownership basis, they trash it in favour of more complex and expensive alternatives.
Am I the only one that has the feeling that corporations simply don't want to do the electric car for entirely self serving reasons? Not only do they avoid actually selling them like the things were loaded with ebola, when they do let people drive them it's just a lease, and an exorbitant one at that. And they give the EV's underpar design and stupid design decisions, like a gasoline generator instead of more batteries or, in the case of this little manipulation, the suppression of the back seat for a battery pack, that should have gone under chassis and in the motor bay in the first place, with the motors being built into the wheels or wheel arches.
This is not the 50's consumers know what's going on. And after all this they still ask for money because they were bled dry by the banking sector... [rollseyes]
Pathetic.
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Rain 4:02AM (3/08/2009)
I believe that the manufacturers are looking for ways to end the life span of the EV in a predictable fashion.
Like the Automatic transmission that is good for 120,000 miles and the subsequent rebuild which nets another 60,000,all too predictable.
The EV is too simple,no need for multi-speed transmissions or exhaust systems or extravagant cooling systems.
Right now the stumbling block is(as everyone knows)the battery,and right there is where they will target longevity for the planned obsolescence.
Unfortunately there are some jokers running around with plans for Plug-N-Play Batteries and EESTORS that make an engineering solution non-sigma-summa.
And so We wait while the world dies.
The Electric Mini-E with In-Wheel motor technology,Hells Yeah!
Thirty years ago would have been about right to have saved the planet.
Now,how does that factor on when?
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