Xiaomi’s tri-motor 1,548hp SU7 Extremely prototype is hitting manufacturing

Mere days after Xiaomi Vehicle debuted a brand new tri-motor prototype model of its flagship SU7 EV, its CEO confirmed it can transition right into a manufacturing model referred to as the SU7 Extremely that maintains practically all the identical parts. Earlier than then, nonetheless, the 1,548hp BEV will chase some world information at a world-famous monitor.

As a famend smartphone developer, Xiaomi’s toddler automotive arm (based in September 2021) continues to make its presence identified within the trade. After faster-than-expected growth, Xiaomi launched its first-ever BEV mannequin, the SU7, in late 2023 to a lot acclaim.

As deliberate, the smartphone specialist capitalized off its buyer base of 20 million cellphone customers in China, garnering over 50,000 orders within the first 27 minutes it went on sale, serving to propel its market worth by a whopping $4 billion. Initially planning to crank out 60,000 examples of the SU7 this 12 months, Xiaomi selected to bolster manufacturing to maintain up with demand.

Based mostly on its fast begin, it’s onerous to inform that the tech firm is new to constructing vehicles. In April, we reported that the automaker had rolled 10,000 SU7 fashions off its meeting strains in simply 32 days. The SU7 initially launched in three variants: Customary, Professional, and Max – beginning at costs of RMB 215,900 ($29,675), RMB 245,900 ($33,800), and RMB 299,900 ($41,225), respectively.

Nonetheless, final week, Xiaomi unveiled a brand new tri-motor prototype referred to as the SU7 Extremely. It could possibly go 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in a scorching 1.97 seconds and has a high pace of 350 km/h (217 mph). As such, the Xiaomi SU7 Extremely was designed to problem current information because the “world’s quickest four-door automobile.”

Throughout a current reside occasion, Xiaomi’s CEO revealed that the SU7 Extremely prototype will evolve into a really comparable manufacturing model subsequent 12 months, and to proceed to construct hype main as much as that milestone, it’s present iteration goes to indicate its stuff on the world-famous Nürburgring.

Throughout an annual press occasion just lately held in China, Xiaomi founder, chairman, and CEO Lei Jun confirmed a manufacturing model of the SU7 Extremely is within the works and may arrive within the first half of 2025.

For value causes, Xiaomi selected to desert the all-carbon fiber physique at the moment utilized within the SU7 Extremely prototype, which weighs in at 1,900 kg (4,189 lbs). Nonetheless, the manufacturing model will preserve a lot of the remainder of its present tech, together with three V8s electrical motors and 800V structure powered by CATL’s Qilin II batteries that may recharge from 0-100% in twelve minutes.

For comparability, the SU7 weighs 1,980 kg in the usual model and a pair of,205 kg in each the Professional and Max variants.

Much less carbon fiber will definitely imply extra weight on the manufacturing model of the Xiaomi SU7 Extremely, but it surely nonetheless has loads of energy to keep up its standing as one of many quickest mass-market four-door autos on the earth.

That stated, we nonetheless don’t know the precise dimension of the manufacturing model’s battery or what its added weight will equate to. The Customary model of the SU7 weighs 1,980 kg (4,365 lbs), whereas the Max and Professional variants high out at 2,205 kg (4,861 lbs).

Concerning pricing, Lei shared that the Xiaomi SU7 Extremely manufacturing model will likely be barely costlier, however not by a lot.

For now, all eyes will likely be on Xiaomi at Nürburgring this October, when the prototype model of the SU7 Extremely seems to affix the record of speedy BEVs shared above. Xiaomi’s CEO shared that the corporate expects to provide one other 10,000 models of the SU7 in July, tallying about 20,000 builds in its first two months of full-fledged manufacturing.