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Xiaomi announces high production figures for the SU7 model, a month after the launch of its first electric car. The company says these production volumes are supported by an encouraging number of orders.

We saw the first Xiaomi SU7 model in November 2023. As market experts predicted at the time, Xiaomi wanted to attract potential buyers from its existing customer base of 20 million smartphone users in China by offering a seamless system between the SU7 and other Xiaomi devices. That’s exactly what happened.

Within the first 27 minutes after the cars go on sale, the manufacturer 50,000 orders, creating a waiting list of up to seven months. This forced Xiaomi to rethink its production strategy and release more SU7s than originally planned to meet demand. Although Xiaomi is new to electric cars, the company appears to be benefiting from its manufacturing experience and assembly lines in China are running at full capacity.

Xiaomi SU7 / Photo: Xiaomi Automobile/Weibo

The number of orders for Xiaomi SU7 has already exceeded 75,000

Orders for SU7 have arrived, according to Xiaomi Automobile’s Weibo post 75,723 units in the first 28 days Since its launch in China. To keep up with the growing backlog, Xiaomi is ramping up EV production, hoping to produce 100,000 SU7 EVs this year.

The company is already on this path because technological company celebrates 10,000th build just 32 days after SU7 launch. Of these, 5,781 SU7 electric cars have already been delivered to China, and in the meantime the company hints at plans to enter new markets:

We believe that one day Xiaomi cars will travel on all roads of the world!
– says the company.

The SU7 was launched in three distinct models: Standard, Pro and Max – priced at 215,900 yuan ($29,850), 245,900 yuan ($34,000) and 299,900 yuan ($41,450), respectively. Xiaomi founder, chairman and CEO Lei Jun said last week that the company plans to ship 10,000 SU7s in early June.