Xiaomi's second EV and first SUV on track to arrive early next year

Xiaomi's first EV, the SU7, has been doing incredibly well in China, with order numbers much higher than anticipated forcing the company to make more and more units and revise its full-year 2024 target from 100,000 shipments to 130,000 most recently.

With all that said, you may be wondering what Xiaomi's second act will be (the SU7 Ultra is still an SU7, after all). We've heard multiple times that the second Xiaomi car will be an SUV (pictured below in a spy shot), and today a new report reiterates that it will arrive in the first quarter of next year.

The new revelation says we should expect it to hit the market in February or March, and supposedly comes from a Xiaomi insider in China. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun previously hinted at a launch in March, for what it's worth.

The SUV is codenamed MX11 and will share its platform and some components with the SU7, but apparently has a unique design with "smooth side lines", whatever that means. It will be positioned as a direct competitor to Tesla's Model Y, in the same way as the SU7 takes aim at the Model 3.

Xiaomi is currently busy constructing the second phase of its EV factory in Beijing, which should become operational as early as July and as late as August next year. Once it opens, Xiaomi's production capacity will be 300,000 cars per year.

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