BMW i3: I Was Born Electric On...

It's been about a month and a half now since the first BMW i3's destined for retail customers rolled off the assembly line in BMW's Leipzig plant. Recent reports claim BMW delivered 400 i3's in November but we haven't got word of how many were delivered in December as of yet. So what do the new owners have to say? The point is, the i3's are out there now, and customers are driving them. I'm sure a lot of people would like to read first hand reports from actual owners.

I searched but I couldn't find a single detailed report from an actual i3 owner so I reached out to a few of them and asked them if they wanted to be part of a new series I'm going to have here called "I was Born Electric On...". I'm going to allow i3 owners to write guest blog posts to tell us about their thoughts on the car. What they love, what they hate, and everything in between. Of course they'll provide pictures- hopefully cool ones that show their i3 near some of the interesting sites where they live. We'll start the post with "Hi, my name is______ and I was Born Electric on _____.

I already have a few commitments from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany but I'd like more so please email me if you have an i3 and are interested in being featured on this blog, the more the better! Don't worry if you don't write in perfect English, or if your not a polished writer, the readers here don't mind (obviously not because I make a lot of mistakes!) and if it's really difficult to understand I'll just make small corrections that only clarify what you are trying to say. Don't be shy, the readers would love to hear your thoughts.

My email address is: electric.is.better@gmail.com

Thanks and have a Happy New Year everyone. Be electric in 2014!

100,000 Thanks!

I started this blog a little over two years ago, not long after BMW announced the MegaCity vehicle would go into production. I was still driving my MINI-E at the time and the prospect of a real production electric BMW seemed so far off. Well, we're now only weeks away from the i3's European launch and a few months from being able to buy one here in the States. The traffic on this site has really picked up recently and it just surpassed 100,000 pageviews. I've received hundreds of comments and many emails from followers and I just want to say thanks for reading, commenting, following, sharing and reaching out to me. Your participation is the only reason I continue to post about the i3. This is not a commercial site, I do not have advertisements or profit off this in any way. I simply do it because people continue to stop by, read the posts and comment. It's been a fun ride so far; here's to the next 100,000 pageviews and thank you!