Just two months ago we reviewed all the key dates of the Xiaomi first electric car. The Chinese company has managed to put an electric shielding car capable of compete on paper With brands like Tesla but also with firms that have always seemed more inaccessible, such as Porsche.
Then we explain that the project was barely three years old when Lei Jun, CEO of the company, The Xiaomi Su7 definitely showed ushe First electric car of the company. That December 28, 2023 we could not imagine that in just one year we would have seen Xiaomi dispatch tens of thousands of units (almost 90,000 reservations in just 24 hours)get A record in nürburgring And, directly, present a Second SUV body.
A meteoric advance that has ended up finding last December. In the last month of the year, Xiaomi has ended up taking an important bite in the sales of the electric car in China.
It is an advance of what will come in 2025.
A small victory that plays Tesla placed
Specifically, it has been in December and in the electricity sedan market where Xiaomi has managed to overcome Tesla Model 3 as one of the best -selling cars.
Collect in CNEVPOST That the Xiaomi Su7 delivered 25,815 units last December 2024, compared to 21,046 units delivered to Tesla Model 3 by Elon Musk’s company.
The result is especially relevant since Tesla’s electricity directly competed with vehicles that cost a very small part of its price. The Xiaomi Su7 was launched with a price of 215,900 Chinese yuan (about 28,500 euros) slightly below the 235,500 Chinese yuan (about 31,100 euros) of Tesla Model 3. But, above all, especially far from the rivals it has for on.
The Xiaomi Su7 was the fourth best -selling electric sedan in the country. Above it had Wuling binguo (30,757 units) that barely costs 75,800 yuan (10,000 euros), the Hongguang Mini EV (37,747 units) with options in the market where the car is acquired without battery and subscribes to it (lowering the price at a ridiculous cost of just three or four thousand euros) and the Byd Seagull (48,754 units) authentic Reference in the small electric car market and Chinese cheap with a price of 69,800 yuan (9,220 euros).
The result of the Xiaomi Su7 in this first year has been exceptional. Lei Jun confirmed these days that the car had sold more than 135,000 units in the first year. To get an idea, the sum of All electric cars in Spain have added 65,478 units.
December is a warning to Tesla of what can be found in the coming years. The month of December is always a month where the company of Elon Musk delivers more vehicles (it usually does so in the last months of each quarter) but this year it seems that it stepped on the accelerator to try to avoid what finally happened: Sell less cars than the previous year for the first time in its history.
In this final push, Tesla got record figures in China, Delivering 657,000 units in 2024. Only in December managed to place in the Market more than 83,000 vehicles. In spite of everything, from Xiaomi, figures that will approach those of Tesla are advanced by leaps and bounds.
Lei Jun not only confirmed that Xiaomi had put on the market More than 135,000 vehicles In 2024. In addition, he ventured that in 2025 they will get Sell 300,000 cars. That would leave Xiaomi in a 45% production of what Tesla sold in China last year. That is, it is still far but in two years they hope to place almost halfway from the company of Elon Musk.
To understand how this impulse is possible, it is expected that half of the year Xiaomi will throw its first electric SUV. He Xiaomi Yu7 It will fight directly with the Tesla Model and, just when Chinese buyers seem to be turning their backs on foreign manufacturers in favor of the premises. We will have to wait to know to what extent The soda in the image of the Tesla car It is enough to remain one of the best -selling cars.
Photo | Lei Jun
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