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New vehicle sales surged by almost 52% to 8,748,000 units in the first four months of 2021 from 5,761,000 units in the same period of last year, with passenger vehicle sales jumping by over 53% to 6,791,000 units while commercial vehicle sales were up by over 47% at 1,956,000 units. Well before then though, we'll see a new electric-only model, built in China in a JV with Great Wall Motor. Even though BMW's third generation Mini series dates to November 2013, all three bodies will remain in production for a few years yet. Gone will be today's bespoke engines and architectures, along with the cost of engineering so many R-R components in Munich. The pilot-line facility, QS-1, will initially be a 1-gigawatt hour (GWh) battery cell commercial production plant for electric vehicle batteries.