By the middle of next decade, BMW, along with its MINI and Rolls-Royce subsidiaries, will produce 12 fully-electric, battery-powered vehicles. An additional 13 will be offered with hybrid versions of their drivetrains. That’s the promise from two of BMW’s board members, made in a statement ahead of the Frankfurt Auto Show. BMW will...

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I read this and you know what I hear? Paper or plastic. Remember not all that long ago when environmentalists encouraged us to choose plastic bags over paper to save the trees. Today the same idiots howl at our use of the plastic they demanded we choose. Same environuts who espoused clean small diesel engines over gas in europe ... only to now see those same cars banned from downtown London. Today they demand electric cars ... but how long until they finally catch up with the idea that recycling all that light weight garbage those cars are made of is 100 times harder and costlier than just melting down a car made of steel. That there's no environmental win in recycling and building a new car every ten years over keeping an old car in good running shape for 40. Wrestle the pig all you want ... if you don't eventually figure out that the pig is enjoying it more than you are ... you're dumber than the pig.