Infantile EV automaker Xiaomi Automotive has capped off 2025 with delivery numbers that cannot be ignored. The company has delivered an impressive 135,000 units of its flagship SU7 EV… after launching it in late March 2024. Looking ahead to 2025, Xiaomi looks to more than double that EV output with the help of a second model and an additional phase of its production footprint.
If you haven’t heard of Xiaomi Automobile, chances are you will soon. The EV business spun out from smartphone and electronics manufacturer Xiaomi Inc., which was founded three years ago and has been evolving at a lightning-fast pace ever since.
The electronics specialist used all of its manufacturing know-how to develop and produce its flagship model, the 2025 Xiaomi SU7 EV. After faster-than-expected development, Xiaomi launched the SU7 in late 2023 and quickly secured over 50,000 orders in the first 27 minutes.
Xiaomi initially targeted the assembly of 60,000 EVs in 2024, but the SU7’s monumental demand led the young automaker to bolster production to keep up. Shortly after the March 2024 launch, Xiaomi shared that it had already built 10,000 EVs in 32 days but would need to continue ramping up production to keep up with growing orders in China.
By July, Xiaomi said its bolstered production lines were complete, hinting at the prospect of doubling its initial production targets for the year. In mid-November, Xiaomi’s founder shared that the company had reached 100,000 EV builds earlier than expected and could reach 120,000 units before 2025 arrived.
As we bid farewell to 2024 today, Xiaomi Automobile has once again surpassed its targets and is showing no signs of slowing down as we enter 2025.
Xiaomi targets 300,000 EV deliveries in 2025
The featured image above was posted by Xiaomi Automobile on Weibo, celebrating it had surpassed 130,000 deliveries of its SU7 EV as of December 27, 2024. However, during a recent live video chat with Chinese media, Xiaomi founder, chairman, and CEO Lei Jun shared that the number had exceeded 135,000 deliveries for the year.
As such, Jun relayed that the SU7 has achieved all of Xiaomi’s 2024 goals ahead of schedule. Per the Weibo post:
In the new year, the Xiaomi Motors factory will continue to increase production and speed up delivery to ensure that your car will be delivered to you as soon as possible.
Xiaomi’s EVs are built at a facility in Beijing that was announced in November 2021. The facility consists of two construction phases. So far, only phase one has been used to achieve the company’s delivery targets. We previously learned that construction of the main structure of phase two of the Xiaomi factory was expected to be completed by the end of 2024 and fully completed by June 15, 2025.
That process appears on track, and per Xiaomi, it should enable the company to produce up to 300,000 vehicles per year when complete. Judging by the company’s progress, 300,000 units is not impossible in less than two years of building cars.
Earlier this month, Xiaomi unveiled its second model, an SUV called the YU7, which is expected to launch in China in the summer of 2025. Demand for that model could help bring in more money and enable the young automaker to max out its new facility. We will have to reevaluate at the end of 2025 and see if Xiaomi hits 300,000 deliveries. At this rate, the better question may not be if it achieves that target but how far ahead of schedule it does so.
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