Xiaomi SU7

In short

• Built in Beijing since 2024; drag coefficient 0.195, which Xiaomi claims as the world's lowest.
• SU7: 73.6 kWh LFP, 220 kW, 700 km CLTC; SU7 Max: 101 kWh, 800 volts, 495 kW, 0–100 km/h in 2.78 seconds.
• SU7 Ultra: three motors, about 1,138 kW and 1,770 Nm; 7:04.957 on the Nürburgring Nordschleife in April 2025.
• More than 258,000 SU7s delivered by May 2025; no Euro NCAP test and no EU sales so far.

Xiaomi SU7 at a glance

From consumer electronics to cars

Xiaomi received its vehicle production permit from China's National Development and Reform Commission in August 2023. Xiaomi benchmarked the SU7 against the Porsche Taycan and the Tesla Model S. The design team was led by Sawyer Li, with James Qiu responsible for the exterior and Chris Bangle as a consultant.

Demand was high from the start. Xiaomi reported 70,000 orders by April 2024, the 100,000th car came off the line 230 days after launch in November 2024, and the 200,000th followed on 18 March 2025. China sales reached 139,487 in 2024 and 242,291 in 2025, plus 15,728 SU7 Ultras.

Versions and performance

The CLTC figures come from the Chinese test cycle, which gives noticeably higher ranges than the European WLTP; the sources used here give no WLTP figures for the SU7. The Max uses a 220 kW front induction motor and a 275 kW rear motor. Charging peaks at 170 kW for the SU7 and Pro, 300 kW for the Max and 490 kW for the Ultra, which charges from 10 to 80 % in 11 minutes. AC charging runs at 11 kW. Output figures on this scale are easier to compare with the power converter, which turns kW into PS and hp.

SU7 Ultra and the Nordschleife record

The Ultra was unveiled on 29 October 2024 and launched on 27 February 2025, with deliveries from 3 March. Xiaomi gives 0–100 km/h in 1.98 seconds, 0–200 km/h in 5.96 seconds and 0–300 km/h in 15 seconds; the prototype reached 359.71 km/h at a Chinese proving ground.

On 1 April 2025 Vincent Radermecker lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in an unmodified SU7 Ultra in 7:04.957, a record for a production electric car and a road-legal four-door. It beat the Rimac Nevera, the hypercar described in the story of the Rimac Concept Two, and the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT. On 7 May 2026 Porsche took the record back with a Taycan Turbo GT with the Weissach package and a Manthey kit, at 6:55.553. A non-road-legal Ultra prototype on slick tyres had lapped in 6:46.874 in October 2024 and in 6:22.091 in 2025.

Interior and technology

The cabin has a 16.1-inch 3K touchscreen running Xiaomi HyperOS on a Snapdragon 8295 chip, a 7.1-inch instrument display and a 56-inch augmented-reality head-up display; a 4.7-litre fridge is optional. Basic cars use the camera-based Xiaomi Pilot system with one Nvidia Orin X chip, while higher trims add a lidar, three radars, 11 cameras and two Orin X chips.

Safety, crash and recall

In China's C-NCAP test, published in March 2025, the SU7 Max scored 93.5 % and five stars. The car has not been tested by Euro NCAP.

On 29 March 2025 an SU7 hit a guardrail on the Dezhou–Shangrao expressway in Anhui province and caught fire, and three people died. Xiaomi said the driver-assistance function had been engaged at 116 km/h shortly before the crash. On 19 September 2025 Xiaomi filed a recall for 116,887 standard SU7s built between February 2024 and August 2025, because the level 2 highway assistance could fail to handle some extreme situations.

The 2026 facelift

Pre-sales of the revised SU7 began on 7 January 2026, and it was launched on 19 March 2026; production of the original car ended in February. The facelift uses the V6s Plus motor from the YU7, and the CLTC ranges rose to 713 km for the Standard, 901 km for the Pro and 835 km for the Max. The Standard and Pro now run at 752 volts, the Max at 897 volts. Other changes include wider 265 mm rear tyres, four-piston front brake calipers as standard, semi-hidden door handles, backup power for the door locks and a new steering wheel.

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