宝马未来实验室探秘

    众所周知，宝马公司（BMW）是豪华轿车制造商。但在加州山景城280号州际公路边的一栋白色小房子里，宝马公司的员工正在热火朝天地工作，希望自己生产的汽车能够跑在绿色科技的前沿。从停车场的充电站到装满锂离子电池的棚子，宝马已经拥有自己的未来实验室，而且正在那里此谱写可持续豪华轿车的未来。

    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.

实验室的领导

    在山景城的宝马公司，你可以见到高级技术工程师彼得•登普斯特。他就是宝马下一代汽车创意孵化组的成员之一。登普斯特曾经参与开发MINI E。这辆电动汽车于2008年面世，在公司的600多名测试驾驶员中引起了轰动。如今，他将MINI E项目的数据用于帮助宝马，以满足日益增长的关注可持续性的奢侈品买家的需求。

The lab master

    Meet Peter Dempster, an advanced technology engineer at BMW in Mountain View. He's part of a team that's cooking up new ideas for BMW's next-gen cars. Dempster worked on the MINI E, an electric car that rolled out in 2008 and was a big hit among the company's more than 600 test-drivers. He's now using data from the MINI E project to help BMW meet the needs of a growing group of luxury consumers concerned with sustainability.