Original BMW i3 is still the future – and my dream sub-£10k family EV

I’m on the hunt for new wheels: something nimble and efficient but with a bit of soul. It takes me back 10 years, when I was on a similar quest.

Commuting from London to Northampton in my Mk1 Focus RS, the drudgery of the M1 did not sit well with the fuel bills. The eventual solution was an original Honda Insight; a safer bet would have been to lease a Volkswagen Up, but the little aluminium two-seater from Tochigi, where it was built alongside the NSX, was irresistibly more interesting.