Volker Bouffier visits Nanyang University Singapore

Managing Director of BMW Group Asia, Axel Pannes, attends the launch of a new electromobility research programme, a joint venture between BMW Group and Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) involving the all-electric BMW i3 and plug-in hybrid sports car BMW i8 that runs on electricity and petrol in Singapore, 29 June 2015. This new research programme will be conducted at the Future Mobility Research Lab located on the NTU campus, which is the BMW Group_s first joint lab in Southeast Asia. Both parties will be injecting a combined 1.3 million dollars to drive the new research projects, on top of the initial 5.5 million dollars funding allocated to the joint lab in 2013. Photo: Tom White/dpa | usage worldwide (Photo by Tom White/picture alliance via Getty Images)