Xiaomi car is here! Photos are exposed, or it will be available in February next year
According to MIIT’s official website on November 15, MIIT released announcements on the "Road Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and Products Announcement" (Batch 377) and the "Catalogue of Energy-saving and New Energy Vehicle Models Enjoying Vehicle and Vessel Tax Reductions and Reductions" (Batch 56). Two Xiaomi brand pure electric cars are listed.
The public information shows that the trademark of Xiaomi automobile products is Xiaomi brand, which is a pure electric car, and the manufacturer is Beijing Automotive Group Off-Road Vehicle Co., Ltd.
The picture shows that the tail logo of the Xiaomi car is "Beijing Xiaomi". In terms of external dimensions, it is 4997mm long, 1963mm wide, 1455mm high, and has a wheelbase of 3000mm. The Xiaomi car with the model "BJ7000MBEVR2" uses lithium iron phosphate batteries, and the supplier is BYD’s Freddy batteries; the engine is from United Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd., and the peak power of the drive motor is 220kW.
Another Xiaomi car with the model "BJ7000MBEVA1" uses a ternary lithium battery, and the supplier is Ningde Times.
Practical exploration of Xiaomi automobile production base:
Small-scale trial production has been achieved, and the new car may be launched in February next year
900,000 sold in three years
A few days ago, the reporter visited the Xiaomi automobile factory located in the Beijing Economic Development Zone and saw that the production plant had begun to see scale. The office building was equipped with the Xiaomi logo, and large trucks and yellow construction vehicles were shuttled between them from time to time.
"Production should have already started inside. Some time ago, you could hear sounds coming from inside." A person working near Xiaomi’s production base said in an interview with reporters recently.
Zhang Hai (a pseudonym), a parts supplier waiting to visit the docking person at the entrance of the Xiaomi Automobile factory, revealed to reporters that the four major manufacturing processes (stamping, welding, painting, and final assembly) workshops in the first phase of the Xiaomi Automobile factory have been built and have begun small-scale trial production. The produced cars are all parked in the final assembly workshop.
Since Lei Jun, founder, chairperson and CEO of Xiaomi Group, announced Xiaomi’s entry into the smart car industry, the dynamics of Xiaomi Auto have been attracting much attention. An unnamed person familiar with the matter said in an interview with reporters that Xiaomi Auto will start mass production next month (December) and go on sale next year (February). Previously, Lei Jun had said that the first car of Xiaomi Auto will be mass-produced in the first half of 2024.
According to the plan, the Xiaomi automobile factory is built in two phases, one of which covers an area of about 720,000 square meters and has an annual production capacity of 150,000 vehicles, which will be completed in June 2023; the second phase is planned to start construction in 2024 and be completed in 2025.
According to public information, the relevant factory buildings of the first phase of Xiaomi Automobile have passed the acceptance inspection on June 12. The reporter saw on the periphery of the Xiaomi Automobile factory that the land to be developed and under development inside the factory is separated by barbed wire between the factory buildings marked 1-5 and the office buildings that have been built. "In addition to the factory building, the Xiaomi Automobile factory has also set up an internal low-speed test site for the trial production vehicles," Zhang Hai told reporters.
According to public information, according to Lei Jun’s plan, the first model of Xiaomi Automobile is planned to sell 100,000 units in the first year, and then 900,000 units will be delivered in the next three years, "entering the first camp in the industry in 2024". This means that from 2025 to 2027, Xiaomi Automobile will need at least 300,000 units per year.