ELECTRIC SUV TAKES THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE
HE IX3 REPRESENTS a significant reset for BMW’s electric car plans – and not only because it holds the distinction of being the first BMW model to be produced in China for export to key markets. It also dispenses with the earlier strategy that called for BMW’s electric models to be based on a dedicated aluminium structure called LifeDrive, as with 2013’s similarly named but largely unrelated i3. Instead, the new but familiarly styled electric
