BMW iX3
This shouldn’t be nearly as good an EV as it is. For unlike the BMW i3 that was created in 2013 on a bespoke platform with a wildly expensive carbon-fibre and aluminium hybrid structure to keep it light, the iX3 is basically a standard X3 with no front drive shafts, a battery in the floor and an electric motor driving the rear wheels. It’s a shortcut to an EV SUV, a stopgap, pragmatic, short-term, corner-cutting answer to a rather urgent question.