A recent YouTube video offers an unusual trip around Jejudo island of South Korea where dozens of BMW i3 hybrids lie rotting slowly, abandoned by a company that wanted to rent them.
Some of these parking lots were already discovered last year. Korea Times wrote that a car rental company bought a couple hundred vehicles on lease in 2016-2017, but the business never took off for some reason and it went insolvent. It then parked its entire car fleet on available public areas, including common parking lots and land plots outside cities.
Reports trickled in last year that the Korean branch of BMW obtained a legal right to buy out these cars via state bids. Judging by this freshly filmed video, however, the deal fell through. There is currently a certain ambiguity in South Korea regarding state benefits on buying electric cars, and we assume that BMW would not want to take unnecessary risks buying out a whole fleet with no guarantee of receiving the benefit in the future.
In the meantime, the cars are literally left for dead, exposed to the elements and gradually decaying. Some examples are even missing body panels and doors, resulting in ruined interiors.