BMW Discontinues the iX to Roll Out the Red Carpet for What’s Next: TDS

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TDS is your daily one-stop shop for all the auto industry headlines from around the world fit to print. In the old days, before the internet, a kid on a bicycle would throw a rolled-up copy at your door, and you’d sit and read it at your breakfast nook with coffee in hand and get ink all over your fingers. The modern version’s a lot less romantic, but just as informative. Let’s get into it.

The BMW iX is officially dead, the automaker confirmed to BMWBlog, saying that it’s proud of what it accomplished with the all-electric SUV, and that it’s concluding U.S. allocation to clear space for its …