The Mini E trial cars will be built at the dedicated Mini factory in Oxford, England, before being shipped to BMW headquarters in Munich to have the electric drive trains and batteries fitted. BMW plans to use the results in the US and Europe to inform the conversion of the remainder of its cars into lower-carbon alternatives.
The Mini E is among the first fruits of BMW’s Project i, aimed at making cars of the future more environmentally friendly. “We don’t think the internal combustion engine is going to disappear in the next five years, that’s clear, but we need to open up alternatives,” said Muller.
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