BMW introduced their first electric vehicle concept, the Z11, at the 1991 Frankfurt Auto Show, which helped add legitimacy to electric cars that had previously been seen as do-it-yourself science projects. The Z11 looked like a small BMW but had the expected high quality fit and finish of a BMW, showing it could be a proper electric vehicle rather than a hobby project, helping shift perceptions of electric cars.

1. BMW ELECTRONIC
Electric cars are no longer wild eyed wonders of the local galss blowe (it’s
moved on to car sharing,telepathy and simple reiki,by the way) 20 years ago .
However the genre was unkempt to say least. Bit manufactures offered do it
your self. Science project and retro fits in the back pages of magazines which
had the unfortnate offect of branding the movements as a style more than a
technological four the force.
When BMW entered the electric car discussion with a ground breaking
concept at the 1991 frankfrut auto show. It put some seriousness behind the
whole idea.The electric (know internally as the Z11) might have looked like
strange, small BMW, but it was still a bimmer. Dula front air bags and as
expected fit and finish were like nothing out of sierra clubswap meet. This was
a proper electric vehicle the kind ift hing that might just chip a way at
preception