Coda was an independent company that added an electric drivetrain into the Mitsubishi Mirage sedan. It sold a few hundred in one year and then disappeared. For almost 12 years, there was a Coda Sedan forum hosted at http://www.mycodasedan.com but as the cars got older there were fewer and fewer owners that cared to discuss […]
This dates back a while, but since there isn’t a lot of test drives out there yet, it deserves attention.Back in April, 2014, certain members of the media were invited to BMW North America’s headquarters in Woodfliff Lake, New Jersey. The vehicle driven was a European test vehicle, and not legal for U.S. roads, so the test […]
2015 Since first going on sale in the USA in October 2015, the BMW x5 eDrive has been selling between 100 and 200 units each month – until December! For some reason, 607 X5 plug-in hybrids were sold in the month of December, perhaps mostly as Christmas presents?! I wonder if BMW will be able to […]
June 2015: BMW has announced production of the X5 eDrive will start in August 2015, and the plug-in hybrid SUV will arrive in showrooms in the fall. BMW also announced the X5 eDrive40e will sell for an MSRP of $63,095. Outdated: Production for the x5 eDrive is scheduled to start in April 2015. Since BMW […]
I have seen 21 inch wheels and 245 /275 width on a i8. There seems to be clearance for a slightly wider tire, but BMW cautions against it. The i8 was built with that size of tire for performance – since it’s an AWD vehicle, it doesn’t have the traction issues of a typical rear […]
This morning, from the show floor of the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany, BMW gave us our first real look at the BMW i8 in all of its glory – without that goofy blue camouflage that has filled our lenses for the past few years. In addition to showing off the production ready i8 plug-in […]
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2017 Rumors According to German site AutoBild, BMW will expand its ‘i’ model range of electric vehicle by launching the i5 in the middle of 2019. The 2020 model year BMW i5 will come as a sedan, and with similar proportions to the BMW i3, but with a smaller drive unit (presumably because of technological […]
Audi development chief boss Ulrich Hackenberg said that Audi’s desire is to beat its German rivals (BMW and Mercedes-Benz) to market with a plug-in hybrid diesel. He has also said that both the Q7 and the A8 will get a plug-in hybrid diesel, but did not indicate which model would be first. In March 2015, […]
The Audi Q7 e-Tron may not have a physical appearance that everyone loves, but it can claim some world ‘firsts’ because of it’s ground-breaking drivetrain and energy saving technology. The Q7 e-tron is the first plug-in hybrid vehicles with a diesel engine. It also has Quattro all-wheel drive and an 8 speed triptronic gearbox. The […]