{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/china-recovery-future-mini-and-r-r-stellantis-dealers-the-week/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"China recovery, future Mini and R-R, Stellantis dealers - the week","slug":"china-recovery-future-mini-and-r-r-stellantis-dealers-the-week","createdLocal":"2021-05-21 14:30:52.102496","publishDate":"2021-05-21 11:59:00","feedName":"Connected Car","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://www.just-auto.com/news/china-recovery-future-mini-and-r-r-stellantis-dealers-the-week_id201929.aspx"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>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.\nWell before then though, we'll see a new electric-only model, built in China in a JV with Great Wall Motor.\nEven though BMW's third generation Mini series dates to November 2013, all three bodies will remain in production for a few years yet.\nGone will be today's bespoke engines and architectures, along with the cost of engineering so many R-R components in Munich.\nThe pilot-line facility, QS-1, will initially be a 1-gigawatt hour (GWh) battery cell commercial production plant for electric vehicle batteries.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"china-recovery-future-mini-and-r-r-stellantis-dealers-the-week"}}}