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My name is Harold and I was born electric on August 19 th , 2014.   There are two parts to my story here.   The first is about my path to selecting and buying the i3,   and the second is about my experiences owning and driving the i3. PART 1:    “IF YOU’RE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION,   THEN YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.” When it comes to global warming,   I’m embarrassed to say that for far too long my wife and I were part of the problem.   We’re a two car family,   and over the years we’ve driven a series of big, luxury, premium fuel guzzlers.   As recently as 2007 we each had one of the full-size Range Rovers. Yikes, and yuck! I gradually realized this was not tenable,   but I found it very, very hard to give up the comfort (I’m 6’3 and don’t fit in most cars) and sportiness of a big luxury SUV. The very thought of shoehorning myself into the ugly and painfully boring Prius hybrid was enough to make me puke. So my first tentativ...

Hi, my name is Bill and I was born electric on 14 March 2014.  I've done 2,000 miles in my i3 so far so I thought it was time to contribute first impressions via Tom's blog (thanks Tom). As you can see from my photos, this i3 is definitely not a city dweller, although in the south of England you're never that far from a city to be honest. Driving country lanes so much makes it really tough to keep clean though. I came to the i3 via a curious route, because I had really been looking for an electric motorbike. Sadly, there are not many to choose from and none from the established mainstream motorcycle producers. The more I looked into things the more I was convinced I could live with the range limits inherent to EVs; my daily commute (25 mile round trip) is very compatible with the range of most pure electric vehicles. Coupled with the luxury of having other family vehicles available if needed, it made it really easy to make the switch. But when I started looking to replace...

So Far we've had Andy from the UK , Hil from Holland , Toni from Belgium , Jan From Belgium , and Steven from the Netherlands.   We'll now be traveling to Norway to see what Jon has to say about his Solar Orange BEV i3. Hello, I'm Jon from Norway and I was Born Electric on February 13th. Until now I’ve been "partly electric" by cycling once a week (not in winter) to work with an electric bike. It's 17km each way and I've done 1000km in total. Living in the southwest of Norway, in Sandnes and working in Stavanger, nearby. Electric or hybrid? I first started looking for a hybrid vehicle that could go electric to and from work. Toyota and Lexus could just go a few kilometers in electric mode which wasn't enough for me. Then Volvo came up with one, but it was too expensive. The i3 was the first all-electric that I found interesting. In the past two years the most we have driven at any time was about 100km. If we need to travel longer than that, we go by...

You want one of the first i3's in the US? You'll be getting the full leather Tera World interior as seen above and every option available besides the 20" wheels then. Welcome to the "Launch Edition i3" Just yesterday, BMW i dealers received a bulletin that informed them they can officially begin to process customer orders and place them in the pipeline. Many customers have already left deposits at their local BMW dealerships even though it wasn't an official order yet, with the hope of being one of the first people to take delivery of this revolutionary vehicle. However they didn't have an official order place in the system, that was just to have a place in line reserved for them and to make sure they got one of the few allotted cars their dealer would get for 2014. So now that these reservations can be turned into official orders, everyone must be really happy, right? Not so fast. In a move that will most certainly anger many of the enthusiastic people w...