It used to be that car companies were just that, car companies. Nowadays it seems like everyone is taking a page out of Elon Musk’s book and getting more horizontally integrated. BMW recently announced a partnership with EVCARD, a Sharnghai-based electric car-sharing company. The two are teaming up under the co-branded “ReachNow Powered by EVCARD.” The partnership will offer up station-based electric car-sharing. Think Zip Car with only electric vehicles.

This marks BMW’s first foray into the Asian car-sharing market. The project will kick off with BMW contributing 100 electric BMW i3s. The team hopes that by 2018 there will be 25 stations available in the city of Chengdu, the capital city of Southwest China’s Sichuan province. The stations will be located around high-end areas of the city including premium residential and commercial areas, office buildings, government compounds and five-star hotels. Users can pick up and drop off their i3s at the stations.