{"id":18282,"date":"2022-03-23T09:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18282"},"modified":"2022-03-23T09:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:04:42","slug":"1135395_next-mini-hardtop-ev-designed-from-outset-for-electric-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18282","title":{"rendered":"Next Mini Hardtop EV designed from outset for electric power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1135020_2024-mini-cooper-se-spy-shots\">redesigned Mini Hardtop<\/a> is coming in 2023 as a 2024 model, and prototypes are currently undergoing cold-weather testing near the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n<p>Once again there will be the choice of internal-combustion or electric power, but this time around electric variants have been designed from the outset to run on batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Electric variants of the new Hardtop, of which two have been confirmed, will ride on a separate platform to the internal-combustion variants, though the two should feature mostly identical styling.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m1J9NTZ8FHs\" width=\"560\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The electric variants&#8217; unique platform has allowed the designers to scale down the exterior dimensions without sacrificing interior space. The base variant is expected to have a battery capacity of around 50 kilowatt-hours, or enough for well over 200 miles of range. Compare that to the current Cooper SE Hardtop, which has a 32.6-kwh battery rated by the EPA at just 110 miles. The piddling performance is partially due to the car riding on a platform originally designed for internal-combustion power only.<\/p>\n<p>Mini will launch its redesigned Hardtop in electric guise. Production of the electric variants will be handled in China as part of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1115446_mini-plans-to-build-electric-vehicles-in-china\">agreement made with Great Wall Motors<\/a> in 2018. Production of internal-combustion variants, which will come in three-door, five-door and convertible body styles, will remain in Mini&#8217;s current home of Oxford, U.K.<\/p>\n<p>Mini next year will also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1130375_2024-mini-countryman-spy-shots\">launch a redesigned Countryman<\/a>, which will also offer the choice of internal-combustion or electric power. The new Countryman is set to grow slightly in size to make space for an electric crossover that may just revive the Paceman name. A concept previewing the electric crossover will be revealed later this year. Sadly, plans for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1061231_mini-minor-name-reportedly-set-for-return-on-electric-minicar\">Mini even smaller than the Hardtop<\/a> have been axed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A redesigned Mini Hardtop is coming in 2023 as a 2024 model, and prototypes are currently undergoing cold-weather testing near the Arctic Circle. Once again there will be the choice of internal-combustion or electric power, but this time around electric variants have been designed from the outset to run on batteries. Electric variants of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}