BMW iX5 review: Can 2.8-tonne EV still put the 'S' in SUV?

Long-running X5 SUV is electrified with Neue Klasse design and tech – plus a truly enormous battery It seems that with the new X5, BMW is going for the record for most power sources available in one car. It will at some point be available with mild-hybrid petrol, mild-hybrid diesel, plug-in hybrid, battery-electric and even hydrogen fuel cell drivetrains.At a time when EV mandates and subsidies come and go and consumers can’t decide whether diesel really is the devil’s work, BMW isn't taking any chances and is just giving us everything as part of it being powertrain-agnostic, it says.The G65-generation X5 is due in the UK next spring, and while we’ve driven prototypes of various powertrains, we’ve now also tried the all-new electric iX5 as a finished thing.What is effectively the tall 5 Series has been around since 1999, when it made its debut as what BMW claims was the world’s first ‘SAV’, or sports activity vehicle, because it was fun to drive when the 4x4s around it were not.It has proven sufficiently dynamically satisfying that BMW has gone on to sell more than three million of them throughout the generations. And the SUV-ification of the world means that in some markets it outsells the 5 Series.This car, though, is in most ways, bigger than ever. And in few key areas, much, much greater...