ANDREW FRANKEL
IT HAS NOT BEEN A GREAT MONTH FOR fans of electric racing cars. First Volkswagen shut its motor sport department, killing its extraordinary Pikes Peak-busting, Goodwood Hill record-smashing ID R in the process. Then Audi withdrew from Formula E, followed with undignified haste two days later by BMW.
The real worry lay within the latter’s cited reason for leaving. It stated ominously that it had ‘essentially exhausted the opportunities for this form of technology transfer’. Being a cynical cove, I naturally presumed they were all at it just to put their most environmentally saintly foot
