You know BMW as a luxury automaker. But at a blocky, white facility off of Interstate 280 in Mountain View, Calif., the company is busily working on projects it hopes will keep its cars at the cutting edge of green technology. From parking lot charging stations to a shed full of lithium-ion batteries, BMW has its very own future lab, where it's plotting a future for sustainable luxury cars.
眾所周知,寶馬公司(BMW)是豪華轎車制造商。但在加州山景城280號州際公路邊的一棟白色小房子里,寶馬公司的員工正在熱火朝天地工作,希望自己生產的汽車能夠跑在綠色科技的前沿。從停車場的充電站到裝滿鋰離子電池的棚子,寶馬已經擁有自己的未來實驗室,而且正在那里此譜寫可持續豪華轎車的未來。