I Am Not A Fan Of Electric Cars,

for a number of reasons,

many of them have 30 or more batteries, each one having 12 or more cells in each battery, what happens if 5 or 6 random cells in a number of batteries fails? how do you know which ones? then there is the cost, not only of replacing the batteries, but also the hidden cost of disposing of them, in an environmentally friendly way, and most importantly how do you put out a fire in an electric car? in one episode of The Grand Tour Richard Hammond crashed his car, luckily he escaped but as one of the boys commented, it had taken the fire services 5 days to finally extinguish the car, every time they left another battery, fuel cell or electric motor would reignite, not the thing you want to hear if you are trapped in the wreckage of a electric car, but leaving all of that aside I do like this electric car,

 BMW has unveiled a one-off, all-electric version of the classic MINI car, a 1959 model in fact, to promote its switch to zero-emissions production vehicles next year,

 based on a late version of the original MINI Cooper, the Classic MINI Electric looks exactly the same as the influential car, which was first produced by the UK-based British Motor Corporation in 1959 and went on to become an icon of the 1960s,

but here is the catch, they are only making this one, if you actually want an electric mini, you have to have the current super sized mini, the vehicle is being unveiled at the New York International Auto Show this week, a year ahead of the launch of the company's first fully electric production cars, and in 2025 the company hopes to have a line up of 25 electric cars, just a shame the 1959 mini will not be amongst them!