BMW i3 dissection

How the parking brake works

I’ve had my BMW i3 for over three years now. It’s the best car I’ve ever owned.

When I first got it other owners were talking about an amazing report that told you exactly what it was made of. Munro Associates, who specialise in this kind of thing, had taken an i3 and completely dismantled it. They took every nut, bolt, wire, microprocessor and whatnot and worked out how much each cost to make and how they fit together. It was apparently an awesome read. Only snag was that word was it cost around 100,000 dollars to get a copy of the report. That price has now dropped a bit.

For the tiny sum of ten dollars you can now obtain all 850Mb of data in the form of 10 large pdf documents. You don’t learn how to mend the car but you do get an amazing level of detail on how it was put together. For a nerd like me it is a wonderful read.