Mini announces a small electric minivan for 2023
- The Mini brand (a subsidiary of the BMW group) announces a production version of its battery electric Urbanaut concept car presented last year and which prefigured a small B-segment minivan but very spacious thanks to its one volume design.
- The production version of this small electric minivan should be launched in 2023. It seems that this model will be produced in China, on a common platform between BMW and Great Wall, as the two carmakers decided several years ago to cooperate in the development of electric cars.
- The new small minivan will therefore share its platform with future Great Wall models but also with the future Mini which will be produced in Oxford, England. The BMW group proceeds like its competitor Daimler (now Mercedes Cars), by pooling the platform of its most compact electric model, namely the Smart at Mercedes and the Mini E at BMW.
- The new Mini will be launched in 2023 as a three-door sedan version. The Countryman will be renewed the same year, it will always be an SUV version of the Mini, about 4.30 m long, also the dimensions of the future Smart SUV.
- We observe that the two brands Mini and Smart tend to come closer in terms of products, as the Mercedes subsidiary will abandon its small models of less than 3 meters for a range more in line with demand. Mini, however, supplants its competitor with the addition of a small electric MPV, the concept of which goes back to the fundamentals of the first MPVs (optimum cabin space in a small surface). This concept could be more successful in China than in Europe, which is why it is produced in China by Great Wall.
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