Published 2009-10-16 04:10:10
The all-electric Mini E bursts away from traffic lights, zooms about like a sports car and can carry you 120 miles on a four-hour charge. A milk float? In your milkman’s dreams. Unfortunately, your milkman can’t have one — not unless he signed up to be one of the 20 triallists, dwelling between Oxford and London, who will shortly take delivery of a prototype Mini E and live with it for six months. A second trial group of 20 will repeat the experiment next year. After which, BMW and its consortium partners will know a lot more about whether electricity genuinely is the future of the city car. And then, come 2015, BMW may or may not decide to bring an electric vehicle to market, which may or may not be a Mini.
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk
(Driving News from Times Online)