Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi has revealed its new YU7 sports utility vehicle (SUV) that it expects to commercially release in mid-2025, taking on similar models from Tesla, Li Auto and Nio in the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) market. In a Weibo post on Tuesday, Xiaomi founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun showed off … Read more
Xiaomi founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun on Wednesday marked the roll-out of the firm’s 100,000th electric vehicle (EV) from the assembly line with a social-media post of himself sleeping on the factory floor, paying homage to what Elon Musk did during the early days of Tesla. In a post published at 7:57am on … Read more
Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone brand that has ventured into electric-vehicle (EV) making, has introduced a US$114,000 luxury sports car that consumers found to resemble a Ferrari, and which company founder Lei Jun praised as “amazing”. The SU7 Ultra, launched on Tuesday and selling for 814,900 yuan, is Xiaomi’s second car release after it jumped into … Read more
Chinese tech firm Xiaomi has been credited for designing the nation’s first 3-nanometre smartphone chip, but the company has stayed silent on the matter. Tang Jianguo, chief economist of the municipal economy and information technology bureau in charge of Beijing’s hi-tech industry, said Xiaomi successfully “taped out” China’s first 3-nm-grade mobile chip, in a news … Read more
A new feature on Alibaba Group Holding’s Taobao app lets potential car buyers test drive Xiaomi’s SU7 electric sedan virtually through Apple’s Vision Pro headset, the latest example of Chinese tech companies employing cutting-edge technology to compete for customers. Launched earlier this week as part of an update to Taobao’s Vision Pro app, the new … Read more
Jiyue, a premium electric vehicle (EV) maker backed by China’s search-engine giant Baidu, is doubling down on autonomous-driving technology as it launches its second model and fights to gain traction in the country’s cutthroat market for battery-powered cars. The Jiyue 07, a fully electric sedan expected to take on Tesla’s Shanghai-made Model 3, will feature … Read more
Goldman Sachs said in a research note on April 1 that it believed the fully electric sedan “is highly competitive and demonstrates Xiaomi’s capabilities of becoming a potential price leader in the market rather than a price follower.” The SU7, fitted with intelligent features such as an autonomous driving system and digital cockpit, hit the … Read more
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi is seeing continued strong demand for its first electric vehicle (EV) – the SU7, short for Speed Ultra 7 – even as potential buyers face delivery wait times of more than five months, the South China Morning Post has learned. Buyers of the standard SU7 model, which costs 215,900 yuan (US$29,859), … Read more
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi on Thursday launched its much-awaited first electric vehicle (EV) – the SU7, short for Speed Ultra – at a venue in Beijing close to its car manufacturing facility, pricing the standard model at 215,900 yuan (US$29,867) to take on Tesla’s Model 3 in the world’s largest EV market. The high-end SU7 … Read more
Home Car And Bike Xiaomi’s First Electric Car Su7 To Be Launched On March 28 In Three Variants The SU7 will be available in 245/45 R19 and 245/40 R20 tire options along with 19 and 20-inch alloy wheels. (Image: X/@leijun) Xiaomi Su7: The reports from the auto market suggest that the Chinese tech company Xiaomi … Read more
