Among the new car companies that make cars, Xiaomi Auto can be regarded as a latecomer.
In March last year, founder of Xiaomi Group , Lei Jun , announced that Xiaomi will build cars. On September 1 of the same year, Xiaomi Automobile Co., Ltd. was officially established.
Two months later, on November 27, Xiaomi Automobile Production Base officially settled in Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone.
It should be said that Xiaomi is still very fast in building cars.
According to Xiaomi Auto’s plan, the first model will be offline and mass-produced by 2024.
At present, Xiaomi's car manufacturing team has more than 1,200 people.
Recently, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun publicly stated that Xiaomi Auto’s goal is to become the top five electric vehicles in the world and achieve sales of over 10 million vehicles per year.
As soon as this statement was made, it aroused heated discussions among many netizens.
Although building cars is expensive, judging from Xiaomi's current situation, it is not short of money.
Lei Jun also said that he has prepared $10 billion to build a car.
Not long ago, there was also news that Xiaomi Automobile Factory will obtain production qualifications in June or July next year.
From a technical perspective, Xiaomi has obtained more than 200 patents in the field of car manufacturing.
Also, on August 11 this year, Xiaomi Group CEO Lei Jun also announced the research and development progress of Xiaomi's autonomous driving technology. Currently, a team of 500 people is studying autonomous driving technology, and said that in 2024, it will enter the first camp of the industry.
Because in the eyes of Xiaomi Auto, autonomous driving is the most core and most concerned function in the field of smart cars.
It is worth mentioning that Xiaomi Automobile also has a very unique function, that is, after the vehicle is automatically parked and entered, it can automatically find the charging port and complete the charging.
This is definitely a black technology in the current electric vehicle field.
So, can Xiaomi achieve the goal of achieving the annual sales of over 10 million vehicles as Lei Jun said?
Before answering this question, let’s take a look at the sales data of other car companies.
In 2021, the world's highest sales car company is Toyota , which sold 10.5 million cars. Volkswagen, which ranked second in
, had sales of 8.88 million vehicles in 2021.
In terms of new energy vehicles, the car company with the highest sales volume in 2021 is Tesla , which sold 930,000 cars.
even if the sales volume of BYD , which has been booming this year, the highest sales this year may exceed 2 million vehicles.
To sum up, even if Xiaomi is not short of money, it still has technology, but it is probably difficult to achieve the annual sales target of 10 million vehicles within 10 years.
As for whether Xiaomi can rank among the top five in the global electric vehicle industry, it seems to be a big unknown in the opinion of Car Kuaishou.
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