THE BMW i UK team’s visit to Electric Corby marked the Community Interest Company’s third birthday last month.
BMW i is a comprehensive and ground-breaking concept for sustainable mobility. It represents visionary electric vehicles and mobility services, inspiring design and a new understanding of premium that is strongly defined by sustainability.
THE BMW i UK team’s visit to Electric Corby marked the Community Interest Company’s third birthday last month.
BMW i is a comprehensive and ground-breaking concept for sustainable mobility. It represents visionary electric vehicles and mobility services, inspiring design and a new understanding of premium that is strongly defined by sustainability. The team brought the all-electric BMW i3 to Corby, a locally emission-free car for city driving that is sustainably designed throughout, and all eyes were on the BMW i8 as the most progressive of modern sports cars.
Carl Sanderson head of BMW i UK,praised the initiative: “I have always been impressed with appetite for change in Corby, reflected in new developments in the town and the activities of the new Electric Corby fascinated the team, so here we came. We are always looking for innovative, creative places to experience that are outside our norm and Corby is just that. Moreover, Electric Corby is just the type of innovative, creative initiative that we need to understand.”
Indeed, this marks a successful start for a very special business. Special in being a genuine public private partnership formed into a Community Interest Company (CIC), in effect a private company, but with a social ethic working to achieve a positive impact for the Corby community.
The CIC was formed by Corby Borough Council, Cenex (Centre of Excellence for low carbon transport) and BeLa Partnership (developers of Priors Hall Park) to establish Corby as one of the UK’s leading practical community scale test centres for new sustainable ways of living, working and travelling. The CIC’s overall aim is to attract companies in those fields to invest and create more new jobs in the town.
The CIC is now a sustainable business with a turnover of over £500k employing five people, has brought £3.7m of investment into the town and delivered homes without energy bills, the highest per capita concentration of EV charging points in the UK and a new Community Energy service.
