Xiaomi Group president Lu Weibing recently took to Weibo to share a photo of an SU7 Ultra with a German licence plate, making it the first of the brand’s electric vehicles (EVs) to be registered for use on European roads.
“I test drove the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra in Munich, Germany today. This is our first experimental vehicle registered in Europe,” Lu wrote in his Weibo post. The vehicle in question is pictured with the licence plate ‘M SU7088E’, where ‘M’ likely stands for Xiaomi and ‘SU7’ represents the model’s name.
The SU7 Ultra has been to Europe before, although not for road testing. On June 11, the company announced it managed to set a new record for electric production cars on the Nurburgring when a SU7 Ultra lapped the Green Hell in 7:04.95 minutes. The time is three tenths of second faster than the Rimac Nivera and 2.5 seconds faster than the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT. A stripped-out, prototype SU7 had a go much earlier and managed 6:46.87 minutes, although that car isn’t production spec.
Xiaomi previously said it intends to sell its EVs overseas markets by 2027, with the current focus being to meet strong domestic demand in China. Currently, the company’s EV factory in Beijing has an annual production capacity of 150,000 units, with the second phase of the facility yet to officially commence operations.
The SU7 has been well received in China, with customers having to wait a long time to have their cars delivered. The same is also true of the brand’s second model and first SUV, the YU7, with reports indicating over 200,000 orders have been received since the model went on sale late last month.
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M just means the car is registered in Munich. Like how BMW’s official photos of their cars all have M plates.
not sure by 2027 if there is any mass production Car can overtake this Racing Record?
The record is fake because the version they drove in the Nurburgring is a heavily modified version (same cheat tactic used by Tesla). Nobody knows what time an actual road going model will do because likely it won’t even last the lap.
The SU7 Ultra used in the record attempt gone through weigh reduction, with lightened body panels and interior trim removed to get better power to weight ratio. It basically had no soundproofing ala race car. The same thing done by Tesla on the Model S Plaid Track Pack for its record runs. Tesla even went one step further and fitted the car with suspension system not available for roada
No road car can ever match their lap record counterpart, not even Nissan GTR and Porsche 911 Turbo S. Its open secret carmakers ran record attempts with non‐standard engine tune, sticky almost‐slick tires and other shenanigans.
There are several version.
The SU7 Ultra Prototype is at 6mins range.
The SU7 Ultra stock is at 7mins, qualified as world fastest mass production EV,
Which has overtaken production Rimac EV, Porsche EV.
Good for them. This is the brand that topped the CN market sales charts.
seems they spent fortune in marketing too, hopefully they could sustain in the industry.
ultra super pro max edition could be fun.
Xiaomi’s marketing worked so well that their main problem now is increasing production to meet the overwhelming demand for the YU7. The current 14 months wait is too long.
Beli dulu jangan pikir pikir angkat loan bayar sampai pokai kasi lu 5 tahun tak ada spare part punya.