It’s been seven months since BMW, along with Volkswagen and ChargePoint announced a joint venture which would install roughly 100 DC fast charge units on the East and West coasts. While there’s been a lot…
Now that dog days of summer are upon us, I’ve noticed quite a few i3 owners popping up on social media sites like the i3 Facebook Group, the MyBMWi3 Forum and the BMW i Circuit Forum asking…
Well that went by fast. After waiting patiently for years for BMW to bring the “Megacity” car, their first production electric vehicle to market, my first year of ownership really flew by quickly. On May…
With the proliferation of electric vehicles like the i3, the absence of a robust fast charge infrastructure becomes more and more difficult to ignore. There are indeed areas of California which are served very well…
Megacity: A metropolitan area with a total population in excess of ten million people. BMW has all along told us that the i3 was designed for urban transport, a glimpse at the future of personal…
When choosing a home charging station for your electric car there are a lot of factors to consider. I also think it’s wise to not only consider the vehicle you’re driving now, but also what…
Having been in BMW’s trial lease e-mobility program for five years, I’ve been able to get to know many of the program managers and engineers working at BMW i in North America. Jose Guerrero, Product…
In many ways electric cars are very similar to their internal combustion counterparts and that’s by design. Most major OEMs are afraid to make something that’s “too different” from what their existing customer base is…
One of the things many of us EV drivers are guilty of, is plugging in whenever we have the opportunity to. We may not even need the extra range, but if there is an available…
What is the frunk in a BMW i3? The i3’s front storage compartment (affectionately called the “frunk” by many since Tesla initially coined the term)
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