
I’ve driven an awful lot of electric cars in recent months, and they’ve all worked well. Some are more efficient than others, some better looking, many quite good fun, all expensive for what they are – and all, at least in use, are very green. They are basically excellent products, if you leave aside the money side of things. There’s only one, however, that feels “just right” as what you might call a driver’s car.
With the same weary sense of inevitability I feel on seeing Erling Haaland advance towards another team’s goal, I have to say it’s a BMW. The BMW i4, in fact, which is so good that it should turn out to be their new staple product, eclipsing the 3-series. In its way, something of a turning point. Why so?