“Especially known for its smart and aerodynamic phones,” Xiaomi plans to launch its vehicles in Europe in 2027

It is one of the new Chinese car manufacturers that attracts all eyes abroad. The Xiaomi company, better known for its smartphones, recently launched in the car with a sports sedan, the SU7, marketed since March 2024. A car that was exhibited in Paris the following summer, but without knowing at that time if this model, and less the brand, one day would be launched in Europe.

It is now confirmed: Xiaomi plans to offer its vehicles in the European market in 2027, secured on Tuesday, August 19, William Lu, president of the company, during a telephone conference on the financial results of the second quarter.

A record in the nürburgring

A few weeks ago, the leader shared in his story of the Weibo social network a photo of him with an Ultra Su7 in Munich with a German dish, specifying that it was the “first experimental vehicle (of the brand) recorded in Europe.”

This more efficient version of the sedan has three electric motors for a power of 1,548 horsepower and had registered in October 2024 a record time in the legendary Nürburgring, which works better than a certain Porsche Taycan or that a Tesla Model s traid in the category of 4 -oor Sedan.

“A company, better known for its smartphones and Aerfryers, establishes a tour of Nürburgring. What was it!” An Internet user commented on the video of this feat.

A SUV also now in the range

The president of Xiaomi did not enter the detail of this next release in Europe. After the SU7 sedan, the brand has just opened orders for a second model, the Yu7 Family SUV, with almost 300,000 early orders recorded in China in just one hour.

Meanwhile, Xiaomi must already confirm expectations in its national market. If the figures are promising, the brand has sold 157,000 cars in China in the first half, it remains far behind a byd, almost 344,000 sales, or Leapmotor, in around 221,000 units, they remind him They throw them.

In the financial results presented this week, the still very recent automotive activity generated a turnover of 20.6 billion yuan (2.46 billion euros) with a reduced loss compared to the first quarter. Xiaomi still plans to be green in the second half of the year.