Sydney resident Uma Pillai has tried to reduce her impact on the environment wherever she can. Recycling and eating less meat were both objectives that could be accomplished relatively easily, but her long-term goal, saving up for an electric vehicle, took a few years.

BMW Group Thailand recently donated a four-cylinder internal combustion engine used in the latest plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) to Chitralada Vocational School under the “BMW Service Apprentice Program”.