The group BMW introduced the service eDrive Zones in 20 other European cities. This means that 138 European cities benefit from a specific technology, thanks to which the brand’s plug-in hybrid vehicles automatically switch to purely electric driving mode as soon as they cross the border of more central city areas. In Italy, in addition to Milan, Turin and Rome where the service is already active, they are also added Verona, Brescia, Florence and Naples.
The vehicle recognizes the designated areas using the technology of geofencing and the GPS. The automated eDrive function is available as standard in many current and all future BMW plug-in hybrids. Drivers are rewarded with bonus points for every kilometer driven using electric propulsion – and double points in the eDrive Zones – which they can redeem for top-up credit. Additionally, drivers earn bonus points when they charge their vehicle.
The last 20 cities to be added are, in total: Aberdeen, Bregenz, Brescia, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Copenhagen, Cork, Coventry, Florence, Klagenfurt, Lille, Matosinhos, Naples, Oeiras, Oxford, Sheffield, St. Polten , Toulouse and Verona. According to data provided by the Bavarian brand, more than 75% of all journeys within an eDrive Zone are already made in electric mode today. Of these, around 40% of drivers already enter designated areas using electric propulsion. At the same time, an additional 35% switch to electric driving mode using the eZone function. In the last quarter alone, BMW plug-in hybrid models covered another 3.3 million kilometers in electric driving mode within the eDrive Zones. This equates to more than 80 trips around the equator – done in electric mode.
But what are the other cities where you can take advantage of the eDrive Zones? BMW has published a comprehensive list, consisting of the following cities: Aachen, Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Augsburg, Balingen, Barcelona, Basel, Bath, Belfast, Bergen, Berlin, Bern, Birmingham, Bonn, Bordeaux, Braga, Breda, Bregenz, Bremen, Brescia, Bristol, Bruges, Brussels, Cambridge, Cardiff, Charleroi, Copenhagen, Cork, Coventry, Darmstadt, Den Haag, Dinslaken, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Erfurt, Eschweiler, Florence, Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg im Breisgau, Geneva, Ghent, Glasgow, Goteborg, Graz, Groningen, Hagen, Halle (Saale), Hannover, Hasselt, Heidelberg, Heidenheim an der Brenz, Heilbronn, Herrenberg , Ilsfeld, Innsbruck, Karlsruhe, Klagenfurt, Köln, Krefeld, Langenfeld (Rheinland), Leipzig, Leonberg, Leuven, Liège, Lille, Limburg an der Lahn, Limerick, Linz, Lissabon, Liverpool, London, Ludwigsburg, Luxembourg, Luzern, Lyon, Madrid, Magdeburg, Mainz, Malmö, Manchester, Mannheim, Marburg, Marseille, Matosinhos, Milan, Mönchengladbach, Mons, Mühlacker, Munich, Münster, Namur, Naples, Neuss, Nürnberg, Oeiras, Offenbach am Main, Oslo, Osnabrück, Overath, Oxford, Paris, Pfinztal, Pforzheim, Port, Regensburg, Remscheid, Reutlingen, Rome, Rotterdam, Ruhrgebiet, Salzburg, Schramberg, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Sheffield, Siegen, St. Pölten, Stavanger, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Tilburg, Toulouse, Trondheim, Tübingen, Turin, Ulm, Uppsala, Urbach, Utrecht, Verona, Vienna, Wendlingen am Neckar, Wiesbaden, Wuppertal, Zurich.
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