Thursday, March 31, 2011

Second phase of the fleet trial started with Mini E

BMW and Vattenfall have today launched for the continuation of the test fleet with the Mini E in Berlin, where. As part of the field trial will be by September 2011 a total of 70 of the electric vehicles tested with selected fleet customers and private users. The goal of the Federal Ministry of Environment funded research project is to optimize the charging strategy.

For the second trial had received more than 1,800 private candidates. 30 Mini E will be handed over to private users in 40 other fleet customers. For the first time home users were as conscious-called lantern Parker chosen that have no private charger and use only the public charging infrastructure in Berlin.

20 users will be able to use the prototype of a route planner for smartphones, which can display including charging stations along a selected route. The first fleet test were since June 2009 50 Mini E covered about 500 000 kilometers of emission-free. For nearly 90 percent of the users reach the two-seater was sufficient.

The vehicles were charged mainly at night at the local car power box. The application of the controlled charging for the supply of wind energy worked and was accepted by the users. The Mini E has been charged only with certified green electricity from Vattenfall. Three out of four users in Berlin even advocated an exclusive use of renewable energy sources for electric vehicles in the future.

(Ampnet / jri)

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