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BMW Group and NTU launch future mobility research lab in Southeast Asia; focus on EVs and mega-cities
2013-04-23 19:30:31| Green Car Congress
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How BMW is Offering Perks and Planning Profits for Electric Car Lineup
2013-04-22 05:02:59| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Most certainly, BMW is not building electric cars to compete directly with the Nissan Leaf. The German automaker is more likely to take on the Tesla Model S, and plug-in hybrids coming to market from other global automakers. While the company has carefully conducted a three-vehicle phase test program, BMW is now serious about marketing its upcoming i3 and soon-to-follow i8. Offering perks to electric vehicle buyers is the most significant development in BMWs electrified marketing strategy. Offering traditional fuel powered BMW models the EV owners can borrow from local BMW dealers is part of it, along with car sharing and using the onboard navigation system to find charging stations. Theres another key element to what BMW thinks will bring profit margin success to its electric cars carefully managing what goes into them. Carbon-fiber reinforced plastic will make up the passenger compartment, and it weighs half as much as steel and 30% less than aluminum. Read all about BMWs clever marketing strategy offering perks to EV buyers, and more details on whats being done to make production more profitable. The Article How BMW is Offering Perks and Planning Profits for Electric Car Lineup appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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BMW to assemble Mini cars in India
2013-04-17 14:49:20| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
BMW is to begin building the Mini in India, in a move that suggests confidence in the country's emerging car market.
VW to BMW Plot $25 Billion Building Boom to Cut Euro Risk
2013-04-16 11:54:21| Automakers - Topix.net
With the yen weakening and Europe's debt crisis spreading, Volkswagen AG and its German peers are planning to spend more than $25 billion by 2017 to expand production outside their home region and insulate themselves from currency convulsions.
Linde Provides Hydrogen Fueling Systems for BMW Materials Handling Expansion
2013-04-15 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Murray Hill and New Providence, New Jersey, U.S. – BMW Manufacturing's plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, has more than doubled its fleet of material handling equipment using hydrogen fueling systems provided by Linde North America. The 4.0 million square foot production facility now powers its entire hydrogen-fuel cell fleet of more than 230 units to service the plant's production and logistics functions, making it one of the largest fuel cell forklift sites in the world.<br /> <br ...This story is related to the following:Hydrogen Fueling Systems
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