BMW to launch new battery-car online after Geneva show scrapped

Harald Krueger, CEO of the German car maker BMW, poses beside a BMW i4 car prior to the company's annual press conference in Munich, southern Germany, on March 21, 2018. (Getty Images)

With the annual Geneva car show cancelled for the first time since the Second World War era, carmakers are going virtual in a bid to wow the hordes who would otherwise descend on the Swiss city to get a closer look at the latest models.