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CTOnews.com March 6 news, as a deputy to the National people's Congress, Xiaomi founder, chairman and CEO Lei Jun said at the plenary meeting of the Beijing delegation: Xiaomi car building with a high degree of concern and support from leaders has exceeded expectations. Recently, it has successfully completed the winter test and is expected to achieve mass production in the first half of next year.

Xiaomi is a Beijing enterprise born and raised in Beijing, which must take root in Beijing and make due contributions to the scientific and technological innovation and economic development of the capital.

According to available intelligence, Xiaomi locates the pure electric four-door coupe, the battery is expected to come from BYD's Fudi battery, and the lidar comes from Hosai Technology.

Referring to previous reports from CTOnews.com, two of the three proposals put forward by Lei Jun at the meeting this year are related to the automobile industry. Lei Jun said before that he spent all his time and energy on Xiaomi cars, while he spent his time on Xiaomi mobile phones, IoT and high-end chemicals, "striving to be among the top five in the world in 15-20 years."

He suggested that great efforts should be made to develop automobile culture to help our country move from a big automobile country to an automobile power:

1. Guide to create a richer automobile culture scene, provide a stage for the development of automobile culture, and provide a richer application scene for advanced automobile products and technology.

two。 We should appropriately relax the restrictions on automobile refitting and establish national standards for refitted spare parts and automobile aftermarket, so as to provide soil for the development of diversified and innovative automobile culture.

3. We will fully relax the restrictions on the relocation of used cars and pickup trucks into cities, and expand the scope of influence of automobile culture and the mass base.

He suggested that our country should build and improve the automobile data safety management system:

1. Speed up the formulation of data safety standards for the whole life cycle of vehicles and guide the development of the industry.

two。 Establish automobile data safety authentication and evaluation mechanism.

3. Construct the automobile data sharing mechanism and platform to promote the sharing and use of automobile data.

According to previous reports, both versions of Xiaomi are equipped with Qualcomm's next-generation smart cockpit chip and Nvidia Orin X chip to support lidar. Among them, the high-end version is based on 800V high-voltage platform, equipped with Ningde-era Kirin battery; the low-configuration version is based on 400V platform, equipped with BYD lithium iron phosphate battery.

In addition, sources say the new car is expected to be released as soon as this year and go on sale in 2024. Xiaomi is also developing a second production car (internal code name Le mans Le Mans), which is planned to be launched in 2025, the source said.

In his annual speech in August 2022, Lei Jun revealed that Xiaomi, which has formed a team of 500 people, plans to expand to 600 by the end of 2022, with the goal of entering the first camp of the self-driving industry by 2024.

With regard to the profitability of Xiaomi cars, Lei Jun said that for a long time, like Xiaomi mobile phones, they are more concerned about software profits except for hardware profits. Cars can integrate sales, after-sales service and charging piles in the past, and there are more and more services that can be integrated in the future.

As to whether it is too late for mass production of cars in 2024, Lei Jun believes that the new power of car building is 6-7 years ahead of Xiaomi. Two years ago, Xiaomi did a lot of interviews, believing that cars are a century-old racetrack, and it is never too late to be optimistic about the automobile industry. "our ability is in the operation and maintenance of electronics and user experience, and now electric cars are at these points, so I think we are just right to start cars in 2024."

It has also been reported that Xiaomi's first car, code-named MS11, may carry 800V technology and a bridge with 260kW, which is expected to be in mass production in January 2024. It is reported that the first engineering vehicle has been offline on September 28, 2022.

In addition, there are revelations that Xiaomi has decided that the main power battery suppliers are Fudi batteries owned by Ningde Times and BYD, while the lidar will choose Wesai Technology, and Xiaomi car team will develop self-driving technology. software integration is currently under way, and the price ceiling of this upcoming car is expected to be higher than 300000 yuan.

In March 2021, Xiaomi Group officially announced the next car building; on September 1 of the same year, Xiaomi Automobile Co., Ltd. was established with legal representative Lei Jun, with a registered capital of 10 billion yuan; on November 27 of the same year, the Management Committee of Beijing Economic and technological Development Zone formally signed a cooperation agreement with Xiaomi, formally announcing that Xiaomi Motor had settled in Beijing Economic Development Zone.

Xiaomi will build Xiaomi Automobile headquarters, sales headquarters and R & D headquarters in Beijing Economic Development District. It will build a vehicle factory with an annual production capacity of 300000 vehicles in two phases, with a production capacity of 150000 vehicles in the first and second phases respectively. The first car is expected to be offline and mass produced in 2024.

According to the financial report, Xiaomi invested 829 million yuan in innovative businesses, including cars, in the third quarter of 2022, and Xiaomi has a R & D team of more than 1800 people.

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