• Toyota concept vehicle is 'electric personal vehicle'
  
• Top speed of 20mph
• Show attracted 2,000 companies from 36 countries
• 84 new vehicles on show - a sign of Chinese car show's increasing power

By Rob Waugh

  It looks like an electric wheelchair crossed with a recliner, it's controlled by two joysticks at either side - and Toyota believes it might be the future of transport.

Toyota's i-Real electric vehicle was one of the more surreal cars on show at the Beijing Motor Show this year - others included a drop-top electric version of the VW beetle.

The show attracted 2,000 companies from 36 countries - and 84 new vehicles were unveiled at the show, a sign that the Beijing show has increasing clout in the car market.