We have already told you that the BMW i3 will probably be replaced by something else. Entirely different from the name, concept, and construction the current one has. We also said Harald Krüger's fall – the most recent, not that one in front of the i8 – was probably due to the fact that he could not lead BMW into an electrified future. Reuters now confirms that. And says his successor, Oliver Zipse, was chosen precisely because shareholders think he is the best man for this task.

Zipse will become CEO on August 16. He has started his career at BMW as a trainee in 1991 and was the man behind establishing what the carmaker calls "efficient production network" in key plants, such as the ones the company has in Hungary, China and in the US.

That alone has helped BMW have huge profit margins even if it is not exactly one of the biggest manufacturers in the world.

Krüger, on the other hand, was the man in charge when BMW lost its lead in premium cars for Daimler and also lost ground to Tesla. Which is the one the Bavarian company is really worried about.

In 2015, when the executive took over, Tesla was precisely beginning to beat competitors with the Model S, so Krüger would probably have had the time to ask for something competitive by 2018. He didn't.