According to Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, Xiaomi Automobile adheres to the "ten times investment" strategy, the general car companies to build a car, about three or four hundred people, 1 billion to 2 billion yuan of research and development funds, and Xiaomi's first car invested 3,400 engineers, the entire research and development investment of more than 10 billion。Before Xiaomi entered the automotive industry, Lei Jun said, "The chairman of a car company told me that a smart electric car is actually a large mobile phone with four wheels.。Of course, it's not accurate, but it shows that the two industries are highly integrated.。"

According to the official website of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on November 15, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice on the "road motor vehicle manufacturers and products announcement" (377th batch) and "enjoy the vehicle and vessel tax relief and preferential energy-saving use of new energy vehicle models catalog" (56th batch) to release the content of the announcement, two millet brand pure electric cars in the list。Public information shows that the trademark of Xiaomi Automobile products is Xiaomi brand, which is a pure electric car, and the manufacturer is Beijing Automobile Group Off-road Vehicle Co., Ltd.。According to Lei Jun's plan, Xiaomi's first model plans to sell 100,000 vehicles in the first year, and a total of 900,000 vehicles will be delivered in the following three years, "entering the industry's first camp in 2024."。This means that from 2025 to 2027, Xiaomi will need at least 300,000 vehicles per year.。

Xiaomi's car-building is no longer a matter of thunder and rain, and recently, some netizens suspected of taking photos of Xiaomi cars in Xinjiang.。According to a photo taken by a netizen, on the Urumqi-Changji Expressway in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, four test cars of Xiaomi cars are driving smoothly。Even through the picture, the Xiaomi car is disguised in a tight manner, but still can not escape the eyes of this netizen, who even pre-exposed some of the details of the Xiaomi car: equipped with yellow calipers and sharp interior center console edge。Excited, the netizen did not forget to continue to expose on the platform of the little red book, saying that the millet car's "posture is really good," instantly raised everyone's expectations。In the afternoon of the same day, a Weibo of Xiaomi Group CEO Lei Jun seemed to indirectly confirm the authenticity of the road test of Xiaomi cars in Xinjiang.。Although Lei Jun released the content about Xiaomi mobile phone, the content is "test the Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 Leica optics, four shots and five focus segments," but the content of this micro-blog is not important, the important thing is, at this time Lei Jun Fa Bo's ip address shows that it is located in Xinjiang, and the site of the network transmission Xiaomi car road test is the same.。Moreover, Lei Jun also paired a photo of the Xiaomi team on Weibo, and a careful netizen enlarged the photo and found that when the team took the photo, the text displayed on the banner was: Fight for Xiaomi Cars。Some netizens speculated that this time Lei Jun took the team to Xinjiang, it is likely to be to supervise the test results of Xiaomi cars.。In May this year, Lu Weibing, president of Xiaomi Group, said that Xiaomi cars will be officially listed in the first half of 2024.。At present, Xiaomi has gradually accelerated its pace on the road to building cars.。

Recently, there are rumors that millet has been qualified to build a car, in response to this news, millet official did not comment。However, according to media reports, the Xiaomi car factory has recently opened the recruitment of workers, opening up a number of positions such as coating operators and battery workshop operators.。This means that the Xiaomi car is about to enter the production stage, and at the same time the reliability of the above rumors is confirmed。According to the schedule previously given by Xiaomi, Xiaomi cars will be mass produced in the first half of 2024。Xiaomi Chairman Lei Jun has set a goal for Xiaomi to enter the world's top five. In the current fierce competition for new energy vehicles, can this goal really be achieved?？