BMW Hackathon 2013 smartphone apps for electric cars

. Saved under Electric Vehicle, Events Greentech Lead America: BMW,ChargePointand DriveNow are organizing BMW'sBay Area Sustainability Hackathonfocusing on the rapidly growing sectors like electric vehicles, EV charging and mobility services. More ...

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW), the world's biggest luxury-car maker, will offer extra services to attract drivers to its I electric-car lineup, including occasional use of gasoline-powered models. BMW will install optional at-home fast-charging ...

As car sharing continues to gain traction among American drivers, Car2Go is one company benefiting from the changing way we use cars. Seattleite David Stewart doesn't own a car. Instead, the managing partner of a small social media company relies on ...

In celebration of Earth Day 2013, ChargePoint, Inc. the largest network of electric vehicle charging stations, today announced it has teamed with BMW's premium, electric car sharing program DriveNow to showcase the benefits of electric vehicles and ...

Part office suite and part file-syncing service, Google Drive retains all the best features and core functionality of its predecessor, Google Docs, while upping the ante on just how much it enables collaboration. It's one sweet package. (4.5 out of ...

BMW i, MINI, Sixt and Vodafone Group have won the 2013 GSMA Best Mobile Product or Service for Automotive for DriveNow, a premium car sharing service. GSMA is an association of mobile operators and related companies devoted to supporting the ...

Toyota SA has "fine-tuned" its Yaris range to focus on its most popular variants the four-doors with the 51kW one-litre or 73kW 1.3 petrol engines. The 1.5 petrol-hybrid models will continue to be badged .According to Toyota Marketing's Glenn ...

When it comes to getting around on four wheels, there's no shortage of options. Used or new? Mid-sized or mini? Hybrid or plug-in? While not the headlines grabbers that all-electric cars have been, hybrids are still a relatively new technology. When ...

Filed under Company News, Industry News, News Eighty software developers participated in a two-day hack event at the BMW Technology Office in Mountain View, CA April 27-29. Main sponsors were the car-sharing service DriveNow and the charging ...