Unlike all other electric cars in the segment, the BMW i3 is built on a unique platform. It consists of an aluminium chassis and a carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) body, bonded together.

It’s easy to forget BMW was paddling into the growing ... s charismatic personality. One of the i3’s most impressive party tricks is its counter-opening ‘clamshell’ doors, and the engineering trickery ...