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| Company type | Joint venture |
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| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 10 July 2018; 7 years ago (10 July 2018) |
| Headquarters | , China |
Key people | Zhao Guoqing (Chairman)[1] |
| Products | Automobiles |
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Number of employees | 3,000 |
| Chinese name | |
| Simplified Chinese | 光束汽车 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Guāngshù Qìchē |
| Website | en |
Spotlight Automotive Ltd. (Chinese:光束汽车;pinyin:Guāngshù Qìchē) is ajoint venture betweenBMW Group andGreat Wall Motor (GWM) founded in 2018 to develop and produceMini-branded battery electric vehicles in China.
In November 2019, following an agreement in 2018, BMW and GWM established Spotlight Automotive.[2]
Its manufacturing plant inZhangjiagang, Jiangsu was constructed between 2020 and 2022.[3] Its first mass-produced vehicle, aMini Cooper SE (J01) rolled off from the plant on 14 October 2023.[4]
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