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Just about every automaker in the world is working on an all-electric vehicle right now.  We here at Center BMW, for example, should get our first batch of ActiveE models in just a little over a year, and admittedly those will be the first production electric cars that we'll have ever sold.

But let's not pretend like the idea of an electric car is something brand new.  It's not.  Gasoline-run cars have…

Hybrid technology has done a lot for the automotive world over the course of the last ten years, but not always in the ways you're probably expecting.  Yes, there are vehicles out there that have used hybrid systems to create ultra efficient vehicles that use way less gas than their predecessors.  However, another way cars have used the technology is to keep the MPG's where they've always been, but the hybrid tech allows for more power and better performance without having to jack up fuel usage.

There isn't an automaker in the world right now that isn't doing every single thing they can to make their vehicles as green as possible.  Engineers are helping consumers lower their carbon footprints with hybrid vehicles, all-electric vehicles, and even all-gas vehicles that simple take and consume fuel more conservatively.  Every year, billions of dollars go into research for how to better these technologies, as well as alternative fuels and fuel cells and?

One of the really great things that has found its way into the everyday world of automobiles is "The Infotainment System," which many automakers now offer.  For those of you that have been asleep for the last two years and have heard nothing about them, systems like BMW's ConnectedDrive run voice-activated versions of specialty apps through smartphones, allowing users to tap into music, navigation, and reference information they never would've had access to?