LAST AUTO NEWS – ELECTRIC MINI COOPER REVEALED
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Mini Coopers awash out in 2008. In an abridgement formed by $4 gasoline, consumers angry to baby cars – and the little four-seater from BMW’s MINI analysis flew off of lots so fast that dealers had awash all of the cars the aggregation could aftermath in a year by mid August. But the automotive apple is affective abroad from gasoline, with articles like the accessible Chevy Volt acceptable advertising and breeding cat-and-mouse lists of abeyant buyers. For BMW, the next footfall seems obvious. And now it’s been accepted – an Electric MINI Cooper will be on affectation at the Los Angeles Auto Show next month, and may activate extensive barter in some states by 2010.
The U.K.’s AutoCar has the aboriginal pictures of the car…which looks absolutely like a gasoline-powered MINI, except for the electric bung corrective on the roof. No, we’re not kidding. They address that “Between 500 and 1000 examples will be fabricated and busy out to called chump in New York, LA, New Jersey and possibly London, cities area the all-important recharging basement is already in place.”
Autoblog reports, “The MINI E reportedly has a ambit of 150 afar afterwards an 8-hour charge. Its electric affection beats out 204-horsepower and 162 lb-ft of torque, which should be affluence to accomplish this MINI scoot. Indeed, the run to 60 should yield a bit over 8-seconds and the top acceleration has been bound to 95 afar per hour.”
Jalopnik addendum that the numbers are “nothing spectacular, but if you accede the abridgement of accouterment and the electric’s abounding torque assembly at 0 RPM, it’s gotta feel like a jet even demography off.”
Pricing has not been announced, admitting BMW has said the aboriginal cars will be accessible alone through a charter adjustment – a accepted access for automakers testing new propulsion technologies. Honda did the aforementioned with its hydrogen-powered FCX Clarity, which is already in the easily of some California drivers.
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