BMW electric iX3 review: Seeing eye to i

Singapore

I HAVE a theory about the Singapore car buyer: he doesn't know what he wants, and only wants what he knows. That makes the BMW iX3 the perfect electric car for our market, given how it wraps the dizzying newfangledness of battery propulsion in the reassuringly familiar package of BMW's single best selling car.

You might have only a hazy notion of what an Audi e-tron or Mercedes EQC is, but you know darn well what a BMW X3 is (and more importantly, so do your neighbours and your in-laws). So start with that, replace the engine, gearbox and fuel tank with batteries and a motor, and you have the iX3. It's only the second electric BMW and, believe it or not, it's here seven long years after the first, the i3.