Written by Amanda Froelich at trueactivist.com; Image Credit: The Hollywood Reporter
The German automaker aims to make only electric vehicles by 2025.
A lot will happen within the next decade: Not only may African elephants may go extinct due to poaching, but 1/3 of the polar bear population may die off due to humanity’s unsustainable habits.
One car company is seeking to reduce the likelihood of these happenings, however, by aiming to produce only electric cars within the same time period.
Just recently, BMW announced that all of its vehicles will be electric within the next decade. The German automaker has dedicated a lot of money and effort the past few years into Project i, a subdivision of the company dedicated to building, in eco-friendly factories, fuel alternative vehicles. By 2025, then, the brand will transition all of its lineup to cars that run only on electricity.
As The Hollywood Reporter shares:
“The cars would be driven by separate electric motors powering the front and rear wheels” and “a small gasoline engine would be used to generate electricity to extend the range of the batteries.”
The automaker’s decision is based primarily on increasing restrictions by the EU on carbon emissions, and partly on the success hybrid and electric cars have had in the market.
Ever since Tesla’s Model S SUV was released in 2012 and began dominating the eco-friendly market, other car companies have aimed to follow suit and compete with the company.
The electric Model X is supposed to be launched this fall and more than 20,000 people have already put in $5,000 deposits to guarantee theirs. The first two cars from BMW’s Project i, the $43,000 i3 electric and the $135,000 i8 supercar, have also done well in the market. At present, the i3 is the fourth best-selling electric car in the United States.
With vehicles taking the blame for mass carbon production, and in effect decline of species like the polar bears, other companies are ‘going green’ as well. Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Audie are also jumping on the electric bandwagon and releasing their own electric models within the next three years. General Motors is also getting in on the action, having released images of its Bolt vehicle, which will retail at #30,000 being a highly priced electric expected in 2018.
With all these car companies phasing to electric, will gas pumps one day be a thing of the past?
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This article is laced with errors, firstly:
“Ever since Tesla’s Model S SUV was released in 2012 and began dominating the eco-friendly market, other car companies have aimed to follow suit and compete with the company.”
Tesla sells the technology to BMW and Mercedes, technically not competing with them but working alongside them.
& wtf is an “Audie”?
Is #30,000 a new currency? Twitter coin perhaps?
Seriously Anon, are 12-year-olds writing your articles?
Lol… i’m usually the stickler for details etc… glad to see there are others too 😉
I’ve had people tell me to chill etc… but I think if you’re a ‘writer’ or ‘reporter’ then its part of job description to be accurate & proofread etc… dont just depend on spell check etc… Especially in todays world where a majority of kids only read articles, no real books, they need an example of proper grammar & sentence structure. Or else why not just have monkeys type something out? LOL
Technically: didn’t Tesla made all their designs open source to increase the production of electric vehicles across the board for the better of humanity?
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
“All Our Patent Are Belong To You
Elon Musk, CEO June 12, 2014
Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.
When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible.”