According to AutoNews, BMW currently ranks third among automakers closest to achieving the CO2 targets by 2015. Ahead of BMW, Toyota and PSA/Peugeot-Citroen are on track to reaching their EU-mandated CO2 targets. BMW needs to cut their overall fleet emissions … Continue reading

OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM – November 6, 2009: For the second year in a row the BMW Group has cut its average CO2 emissions per car by more than any other automotive manufacturer. According to an independent report published by the … Continue reading

Our Aussie friends at CarAdvice are reporting that by the end of this year, BMW will introduce fifteen new EfficientDynamics models in Australia. While those of us that live in the U.S. are getting, so far, only two ED models, … Continue reading

Very interesting news in Wall Street Journal yesterday:  BMW and Mercedes-Benz might get a break from the U.S government regarding the new fuel economy standards. Under this new proposal, the government will set less stringent emission standards for BMW and … Continue reading

An important element overlooked in the new BMW 5 Series GT, is the introduction for the first time in a U.S. BMW models of the Brake Energy Regeneration system. This particular technology has been already integrated in some European models … Continue reading

Big day for the U.S auto industry, President Obama has announced new rules for fuel efficiency and emissions that will require require all automakers selling automobiles in the U.S. to increase fleet fuel efficiency by 5% PER YEAR starting in … Continue reading

EfficientDynamics has become one of the most used words, at BMW Headquarters and not only, in the past year or so. BMW’s EfficientDynamics is a technology, some may even call it a strategy, of delivering the performance and efficiency that … Continue reading

In September, we talked intensively about BMW’s new Start/Stop System as being part of the “EfficientDynamics” program. The stop-start system is one of the fuel economy and emissions reduction components of its “Efficient Dynamics” technology package. The way it works is … Continue reading

In a recent development, Mercedes’s tuning division, AMG, announced their plans to launch a diesel model within three years. Volker Mornhinweg, the boss of Mercedes’ tuning division describes the diesel  AMG engine as an updated version of the legendary AMG … Continue reading