Cleantech & EV’s

Last month we reported on rumors that BMW had greenlit development of a high-performance “GP” version of the electric Mini. Today BMW announced that the car is indeed being worked on, but it will be designated as a “John Cooper Works” model, a name reserved for the brand’s highest-performance, track-ready vehicles. We didn’t get any specific information, other than the fact that…

Audi released its new budget that goes through 2025 and announced that it is accelerating its electric vehicle investments to $12 billion. The Volkswagen group as a whole has been accelerating its investments into electrification, but Audi has been leading the way in some regards. With the e-tron electric SUV, Audi was the first Volkswagen brand to release a next-generation electric vehicle. Now…

A due of German drivers completed a two-month, 17,500-mile (28,198 km) trip in a VW ID.3 electric car. The trip was used to show the capacity of the charging infrastructure, and they set a new world record while doing it. That world record is for the “longest continuous EV drive through a single country.” Rainer Zietlow and Dominic Brüner spent the last 65 days traveling across Germany…

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