BMW working on electric 5-series sedan for China, we still can't get a diesel

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Surely it'll come elsewhere eventually, but for now an electric
version of BMW's generously proportioned 5-series sedan looks destined
exclusively for China. As part of the company's partnership with
Brilliance China Automotive, BMW Brilliance Automotive is planning to
create a pure EV 5-series and to show it off this year -- at some
point. No further details are known about the car, though we're quite
sure why this is happening. EVs are becoming more and more popular
there as China struggles to shrug off a massive foreign oil dependency
and BMW saw a similarly massive 87 percent jump in growth of its sales
in China in 2010. So, there's your motive, but we'll still have to
wait a bit for the rest of the details.