According to overseas media reports, Mini officially said that it will continue to speed up the electricity of the product line, and increase investment in the Chinese market in 2023, introducing a new electric model using a new electric architecture. . This is further explained that Mini’s first domestic model will be officially put into production in 2023. According to the official introduction, MINI will launch the electric vehicle will be close to the compact cross-border car, the classic three-door model, the small car route.
Combined with previous reports, BMW Group and Great Wall cars officially signed contracts on July 10, 2018, and the new companies were named beam cars. On November 22, 2019, the project was approved by the Jiangsu Development and Reform Commission, and the total investment of the project was 5.1 billion yuan. On November 29, 2019, the beam car project was launched in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, which plans to build production in 2022. In June 2020, the beam automobile factory began piling construction in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province.
For the first model of the beam car put into production, according to the previous report, it is likely to be based on the MINI Rocketman concept car. Created, the future will be produced in China, and exported to the global market. However, from the latest information on the latest exposure, this car is also likely to be a new generation of MINI Countryman’s electric model. Combined with MINI’s electric product planning, 3 pure electric vehicles will be launched in the future, and the Mini Countryman pure electric version should be one of them.