Xiaomi YU7 deliveries reach 6,042 in its first month as production ramps up

Xiaomi has run into a problem most automakers would envy. Its new electric SUV, the YU7, has attracted an incredible number of buyers. The challenge now is no longer convincing customers, but building them fast enough in a situation that tests the young carmaker's abilities and its customers' patience.

When the Xiaomi YU7 launched on June 26, the response was immediate and immense. Within the first 72 hours, the company secured what is reported to be between 280,800 and 315,900 locked-in orders, and that number excludes online orders. To put that in perspective, that's more cars than many established brands sell of a single model in an entire year. The hype was real.

Then, the first monthly delivery numbers for July came in, revealing a starkly different picture. Xiaomi delivered just 6,042 units of its new YU7. For the hundreds of thousands of people who put money down, that number just revealed the long road ahead.

The bottleneck is, unsurprisingly, production. Xiaomi Auto's first factory has an annual capacity of 150,000 vehicles. A second factory, which will eventually match that capacity, only finished construction in mid-June 2025 and is still in the process of ramping up. Even with both plants running at full steam, the company's total output would struggle to clear the initial wave of YU7 orders alone.

The situation is made more complex by the fact that the YU7 isn't the only popular EV Xiaomi makes. It shares the factory floor with its sibling, the SU7 sedan, which is also in high demand. This creates a production tug-of-war. In July, Xiaomi delivered 24,410 units of the SU7 sedan, bringing the company's combined total for the month to 30,452 electric cars.

This is a solid performance, but it also shows where the priority currently lies. When the YU7 SUV was launched, Xiaomi might have hoped it would tempt some buyers away from the SU7, easing the backlog on the sedan. However, reports indicate only about 10% of SU7 reservation holders switched their order to the new SUV. Instead of solving one delivery headache, Xiaomi now has two.

For customers, this success means a very long wait. The official delivery time for any version of the Xiaomi YU7 is now more than 10 months. With new models with better technology and features constantly being released, and government incentives or tax policies changing from one year to the next, a car ordered today could feel dated by the time it finally arrives in the owner's driveway.

Xiaomi has reportedly started asking some customers to pay the full price of the vehicle upfront, hoping to filter out the most committed buyers and to better manage its enormous order book. Xiaomi's goal for this year is to deliver 350,000 vehicles. Having already delivered 150,000 in the first half of 2025, it needs to build and ship another 200,000 by the end of December. This means a monthly average of over 33,000 vehicles. The July total was close, but the pressure is on the newly completed second factory to get up to speed quickly.

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