News
BMW is recalling 923 i3 electric vehicles and MINI cars to replace the passenger’s side front airbag module. This specific issue can only occur when there is a passenger and they aren’t using a seatbelt….
Horatiu Boeriu / October 20, 2015
News
The best car ever tested by Consumer Reports — Tesla Model S – has received a worse-than-average overall problem rate in the Annual Auto Reliability Survey. According to Consumer Reports, over 1,400 survey responses were…
Horatiu Boeriu / October 20, 2015
News
Following the signed power purchasing agreement with energy company Bio2Watt (Pty) Ltd in 2014, BMW South Africa received the first green energy at its Rosslyn plant in Pretoria on 10 October 2015. Through this agreement,…
Horatiu Boeriu / October 19, 2015
News
Mercedes-Benz is on a bit of a roll lately. In the past couple of years, the brand from Stuttgart has put out the class-leading S Class (which might be taken by the new 7 Series,…
Nico DeMattia / October 16, 2015
BMW X1
BMW Welt’s 20 Millionth visitor gets a BMW X1 for a year
by Horatiu Boeriu / Date: October 16, 2015
News
The BMW Group continues to grow its sales, achieving its best ever September result. Deliveries of BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brand vehicles totaled 215,413 for the month, an increase of 7.8% compared with the same…
Horatiu Boeriu / October 12, 2015
News
California-based charging stations manufacturer ClipperCreek launches the HCS-40 JuiceNet Edition, a direct competitor to the ChargePoint Home charging station. ClipperCreek pairs with eMotorWerks to fit the HCS-40 and HCS-40P with the JuiceNet controls which allows…
Horatiu Boeriu / October 9, 2015
News
BMW and Tesla Motors are the two top automotive brands on Twitter and in generating offline word of mouth momentum, according to Engagement Labs. “Our view is that both online and offline word of mouth…
Horatiu Boeriu / October 9, 2015
News
DriveNow USA launched as an electric vehicle car sharing pilot in 2012 in the Bay Area with great success and the hope of expanding our service city-wide so that all neighborhoods would have access to…
Horatiu Boeriu / October 5, 2015
News
The head of Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler said recently that he sees the three larger German automakers, BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen, working together on battery packs for electric vehicles. Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche talked about “commonalities”…
Horatiu Boeriu / October 3, 2015
News
Sales of BMW brand vehicles increased 4.0 percent in September for a total of 26,608 compared to 25,587 vehicles sold in September, 2014. Year-to-date, BMW brand sales are 249,956 vehicles, a 5.6 percent increase from…
Horatiu Boeriu / October 1, 2015