There is no doubt that the numbers Xiaomi achieved with the new Xiaomi SU7 are very ugly indeed. Lei Jun, CEO and founder of Xiaomi, recently posted: Your official profile on X It was stated that the brand recorded the 10,000th delivery of its new electric vehicle. in a record time of only 43 daysIt’s something we haven’t seen in the industry before.
To put the crazy nature of this achievement into context, the Tesla Model 3 made the same number of deliveries in Spain in November 2023, and Xiaomi did it in just 43 days. It is true that we are not talking about equivalent markets at the customer level, but still, considering that it is a car brand created from scratch, The data is simply brutal..
10,000 units in 43 days, but now what?
Considering these amazing numbers on the table, it is worth asking what the future holds for Xiaomi in the electric car industry, and this is something the brand has told us in previous statements. “We need 10,000 units per month before the end of 2024” and “the brand’s idea is to record the figure of 100,000 units delivered before the end of the year.”
To reach this data, the brand relies on the production capacity of its huge (and robotic) factory. each SU7 unit in just 76 seconds and up to 40 units in just one hour of operation. If we do a quick calculation with these figures, with this production capacity we will reach just over 200,000 units before the end of the year, so we are talking about something completely doable.
However, as you know, the production of this type of product depends not only on the talent of the brand, but also also the capacity of its suppliers. In fact, Xiaomi has already notified its head unit. partners the need to increase the frequency of taking its components; This will not be an easy task.
In short, Xiaomi’s challenge for the rest of the year seems to be very big, and considering this The vehicle is sold only in the Chinese market. We’ll see what happens when we can finally buy the vehicle in Europe, but of course the brand’s expansion will have reached a point we can’t even imagine today.
Source | Lei June
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