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  Ross and his new baby in front of  Chatsworth House, Derbyshire Hello, I'm Ross from The UK and I was Born Electric on Saturday, March 1st, 2014. Why an i3? I will start this blog by saying that I am totally obsessed by cars.  I love cars, I always have, and the cars that find their way into our household are usually of the performance variety, ranging from TVRs to Hondas with even the occasional 4x4.  To be perfectly honest, electric cars had never really appeared on my radar.  I was aware of them obviously, but had never considered owning one.  My view was that most of them were slow, couldn’t go very far and generally a bit dull.   However, one of my favourite websites is Pistonheads , and I happened to read their review of the new BMW i3 back in October.  Wow!  This sounded like one exciting little car.  So, at this point I started doing some more research, reading every i3 review I could find.  At this time, my car was an E92...

  A while a go I announced that I would be starting a new series here called, "I was Born Electric on...". I'll be feat uring readers who are i3 owners and who are willing to share their thoughts on the car after  taking possession. They will begin the post by introducing themselves and stating the date they were Born Electric, which is when they picked up the ir i3. Without further ad o, I bring you Andy from the UK, ou r first i3 owner & Born Electric guest blogger:   Hi, my name is Andy and I was Born Electric on Saturday, January 11 th ,  2014. I came to the EV party a bit late in the day, as I was a typical petrolhead and dismissed electric cars as an irrelevance - underpowered, no range, ugly, the usual stuff - and even when I first saw the i3 concept, it looked weird & the projected price seemed way too high (I think a projected £40,000 base price was mentioned at the time).  So I ignored it and carried on driving my gas guzzling M3, ...