Tag: Bmw
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BMW Shows "Deep Commitment to Sustainability" With Pavilion for London Olympics
One more example of how words can become completely meaningless and even contradictory.
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9 Best New Electric Scooters on the Market (Slideshow)
Electric vehicles have come a long way in the last few years, steadily gaining acceptance as a practical and sustainable form of transportation. This is especially true in cities, where most trips are short and space is at a premium.
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BMW's New Car Share Lends You a Car Where You Find One, Lets You Leave It Where You Want
At TreeHugger, we've been big fans of car-sharing services for a long time. ZipCar has long dominated the field, pushing the envelope recently by adding hybrid vehicles and expanding into new
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BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Unveiled Ahead of Frankfurt Show
Ahead of the Frankfurt Auto Show starting 14 September, BMW is drumming up buzz for a completely new concept car, the Vision EfficientDynamics. BMW today released a video (over the fold) promising all the sporty driving fun of the BMW M3 in
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Harvard's Transformer Houses, Clad in BMW's Cloth
What happens when you give a futuristic cloth-like material designed for BMW coupes with a bevy of design students and funding from one of the world's leading
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Venice Fest Forgets the Eco-Details, but Green Art Installation Doesn't Disappoint
Despite the fact that Venice, CA seems to be the epicenter of SoCal's green lifestyle movement, the 24th annual Abbott Kinney Festival that took over the city's main drag on Sunday, September 28th was far from eco-friendly. After claiming last year
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BMW Considering Launching EV by 2012?
During a recent interview, BMW chief executive Norbert Reithofer revealed that the German automaker was considering bringing a battery-powered vehicle to the U.S. market by 2012 in an effort to meet more stringent
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Duke Power, BMW Explore Solar Power Partnership
Duke Energy Corp. is reportedly discussing with BMW Manufacturing Co. the potential for building a solar energy plant at the car company's Spartanburg South Carolina USA facility. Well, isn't that a German sort of response to US government pressure?
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Diesel Motorbike Speed Record Smashed
The DIE Moto, the diesel-engined motorbike which we have covered before, has broken the land speed record for a diesel motorbike, with a speed of 130mph.
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German Engineers Join Hybrid Game
Anticipation hangs palpably ahead of the Frankfurt International Motor Show: what will German engineers bring to the green table? After bucking the trend for several years in favor of the already well-established "clean diesel" technology, German car
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Will Ferrell gets first BMW Hydrogen 7
BMW has built the first of their Hydrogen 7 cars for public use, and handed the first set of keys over to US funny-man, Will Ferrell. 25 of the first 100 cars will be handed out to celebrities in order to promote their hydrogen cars in a predictable PR
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This Month in Wallpaper*: Design Directory 2007
This month's issue of Wallpaper* magazine is dominated by the 2007 Design Directory, their hand-picked favorite architects and designers from the past year. Always the epitome of cool, the mag's slick picks
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TreeHugger Picks: Landfill Gas, From Trash to Alternative Energy
Landfill gas (LFG) isn't quite as sexy as some other alternative energy sources like wind or solar; still, TreeHugger thinks its an important part of our collective renewable energy portfolio. Plus, it's cool that landfills (and the stuff that fills
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The VentureOne Hybrid and EV: 100 MPH, 100 MPG, and that Crazy Tilty Action
At TreeHugger, we like to keep things realistic, raise a skeptical eyebrow to potential vaporware, and to keep in check our giddy inner children that get sweaty palms when we see something like the VentureOne. After all, a bright idea, some capital, and
