brooklynI3
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- Nov 20, 2014
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Hey All! My family and I are now the proud owner of a brand new BMW i3 REx. I found this forum and the various blogs invaluable to deciding on our purchase and am happy to finally be apart of this enhusiastic and and thoughtful community.
While I dont have the time or diligance to curate a blog, i am very interested in sharing our experiences with this car with fellow i3 owners and hopefully provide practical insight for the BMW i program and electric vehicles as a whole. It is an experiment of sorts, but we are attempting to take the i3 at its word as a Mega City Vehicle. We live here in Brooklyn and do not have a garage or parking space as many other EV owners do around here. It is our only vehicle replacing our aging '93 Camry, so she will have to perform 100% of the time for us. It will be parked on the street and has already gotten plenty of looks and photos taken of her. But more importantly we will be at the mercy of New York's nascent vehicle charging infrastructure. Hence the REx designation.
We are cheating a bit, as the recently built Whole Foods nearby has free wind powered EV charging stations and will be our primary source of energy whenever we go grocery shopping. I fully expect our grocery bill to offset any savings we have on fuel.
I'm hoping to update this thread with our experiences and reactions over time and see if it lives up to its name!
While I dont have the time or diligance to curate a blog, i am very interested in sharing our experiences with this car with fellow i3 owners and hopefully provide practical insight for the BMW i program and electric vehicles as a whole. It is an experiment of sorts, but we are attempting to take the i3 at its word as a Mega City Vehicle. We live here in Brooklyn and do not have a garage or parking space as many other EV owners do around here. It is our only vehicle replacing our aging '93 Camry, so she will have to perform 100% of the time for us. It will be parked on the street and has already gotten plenty of looks and photos taken of her. But more importantly we will be at the mercy of New York's nascent vehicle charging infrastructure. Hence the REx designation.
We are cheating a bit, as the recently built Whole Foods nearby has free wind powered EV charging stations and will be our primary source of energy whenever we go grocery shopping. I fully expect our grocery bill to offset any savings we have on fuel.
I'm hoping to update this thread with our experiences and reactions over time and see if it lives up to its name!