cnet cartech advises that BMW has released an app that gives drivers a taste of electric-car living without range anxiety. The free BMW Evolve app is available for
iPhone and Android phones and you don't need an electric vehicle to try it out. Each day you start out with a 100-mile range for your pretend EV. Your actual driving distance is measured using the phone's GPS, and it also lets you "get charged" at destinations that offer electric car charging to increase your range. At the end of the trip, you park and it computes your trip length and distance, tells you how much less CO2 emissions you would have added to the environment and how many gallons of gas you could have saved if you had actually been driving an electric vehicle.
