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Recently, according to Luo Baojun, general manager of Xiaomi's Beijing-Tianjin branch, in an interview with the media, Xiaomi's engineering prototype car or will be unveiled in the third quarter of this year, the Xiaomi executive also said, "the new car will break through everyone's imagination."
Since Xiaomi announced the construction of the car in March last year, the plan has been in a state of steady progress. According to Xiaomi's previous announcement, the company plans to set up a wholly-owned company to focus on the smart electric vehicle business, the company will be led by Lei Jun personally, the first investment of 10 billion yuan, and is expected to invest 10 billion US dollars in the next 10 years.
At the end of last year, Xiaomi Automobile Headquarters officially settled in beijing economic and technological development zone. It is reported that the future headquarters will be divided into a new car research and development department, and a new plant divided into two phases of construction will reach a production capacity of 150,000 units, if the construction project is carried out on schedule, the new car will be mass production as early as 2024.
Just in March this year, Xiaomi took a stake in a domestic smart car chip manufacturer, Kangzhi Integrated Circuit (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. According to the Tianyancha App, the shareholders of the company have added Hubei Xiaomi Yangtze River Industry Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership), and the company's current shareholding ratio is 5.7253%.
Xiaomi's first engineering prototype will be unveiled within the year