Forty families in the Oxford area have, for the past six months, been renting MINI Es and staying in constant touch with BMW about how they find it.
It's part of the German giant's commitment to electric cars - "We never intended to sell the MINI E," said project director Dr Julia Weber,' "but the field trial is an essential part of understanding electric cars."
BMW has no end of information to analyse, but its headline findings were striking: the cars' 100-mile range was good enough for 95% of users... and two in three NEVER used a public charging station!
"Usage of the MINI E was little different to that of a regular petrol or diesel MINI Cooper, with the usage curves almost perfectly matching one another." This suggests MINI drivers are ALREDY leading lifestyles that would fit an EV.Public awareness is actually the key barrier to overcome, said BMW. Hence, the MINI E trials.As the users gathered to hand back their cars, MSN Cars spoke to them in order to discover what they actually felt.
The results were surprising: these people didn't want to hand back their cars! Why? For numerous surprising reasons.We've gathered 10 of the best here, to give you user-proven reasons why you may just want to go electric after all. Will there be an electric car shock within them to surprise and convince you?
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