BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd

As a joint venture between Germany's BMW and China's Brilliance Auto, BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd sold 32,246 new energy vehicles in 2019, which is 16 times that of 2017.

Despite the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic, in the first half of 2020, BMW saw sales of new energy vehicles in China rise by 49.1 percent from the same period of 2019.

As of the end of 2019, BMW's charging network had expanded to cover more than 200 cities in China, with more than 130,000 charging pillars.

The number of BMW's new energy vehicle dealers nationwide has increased to 450 from 336 in 2018. It has achieved full coverage of all the first-and second-tier cities in China.

This year, BMW Brilliance is working on completing its new energy vehicle "ecosystem". The second phase of BMW Brilliance's power battery plant is to enter production and the electric iX3 SUV will be produced in Shenyang, Liaoning province, and sold globally.

The joint venture, established in 2003, has spent up to 52 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) since 2009 on its manufacturing facilities--two car plants and one engine plant--in Shenyang.

It produced two thirds of around 560,000 BMWs delivered to customers in China in 2017. The joint venture currently has six BMW models in its local portfolio, with the X3 SUV unveiled earlier this year the latest addition.

BMW Brilliance is planning to introduce the all-electric BMW iX3 at the end of the decade.

China has become the world's largest sales market for BMW, which sold more than 720,000 cars in 2019.