Never sell...
"ActiveE's top speed has been electronically limited to 90mph"
So that rules out of 90% BMW drivers. How on earth will they cope having to do only 90mph in dense fog?
BMW has revealed the next step in its leccy car development cycle - the ActiveE. ActiveE_02 BMW's ActiveE electric car Based on BMW’s 1-Series Coupé, the ActiveE has a lithium-ion battery pack in the space previously occupied by the engine, fuel tank and drive train. This helps preserve the car's internal space and weight …
Uh should we really be designing apps to use in your car with a phone?
I can see a lot of court cases where people say they werent using their phone... just turning on the AC with their iphone when they ploughed into a tree/bus full of school kids.
Also amusing BMW drivers must all own iphones.. more status symbols for the weak minded.
love the bmw jokes, especially from fiesta drivers :D
if you can't afford comfort and good drive, slag it off, that's the spirit (I do that with people that own yachts)
On the topic at hand though, where are we to find all the rare metals to use on all these batteries ? will that become the new petrol ?
and what will we do in 10 years with millions of batteries to throw away ?
iPhone remote, interesting ... thieves will just need to hack your phone, much cleaner, and less disruption with broken glass etc.... like it !
Finally *someone* realises that electric cars need an infrastructure they can use.
Given the motor is integrated into the back axle does this mean there is no *actual* gearbox as well? Note that does not mean there is no gear lever, merely that it requests the EMU to shuffle the current/voltage settings on the power control unit.
That just leaves finding some way to regen the power from the suspension system to be the state of the art in electric vehicles.
Now what happens when the battery expires after 3 years?
please tell us your vehicle make and reg - I wouldn't want to disappoint you and let you out of a junction or other courteous action while in my BMW - not that I would expect you'd notice anyway, most people only notice the bankers in BMW but seem to ignore them in any other make you can name