Mini's plans to have a completely electric lineup of new vehicles on sale by 2030, with no gas models after that point, were always ambitious, but it could almost have worked out. We were just months away from the 2021 roadmap to bring an electric Mini Cooper convertible and the Aceman crossover EV to the U.S. coming to fruition.
But now, due to escalating tariffs on cars and parts between the U.S. and its global trade partners like China, Mini is backing away from its 2030 initiative and has now confirmed gas models will live on indefinitely, and the U.S. won't get those new EVs.
Mini is a British automotive brand founded in Oxford in 1969 by British Leyland, now under the ownership of BMW since 2000. The Mini name was derived from the original car of the same n...
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