Finance Associated Press, December 28 (Reporter Tang Zhixiao)., 1,003 days have passed since Xiaomi announced the construction of the car.
Despite the late start, relying on the investment layout in the industrial chain in advance, the reuse of the mature parts chain, based on the standard formula of "Snapdragon core + LiDAR + 800V high-voltage battery" that has been explored and completed by the "new forces of car manufacturing", Xiaomi Auto has achieved rapid offline within three years.
According to Lei Jun, at present, Xiaomi Auto's first phase of R&D investment exceeds 10 billion yuan, which is mainly focused on the core technology of new energy vehicles, including self-developed motors, self-built battery pack factories, die-casting technology and key assisted driving technology research and development.
Other components, such as chips for intelligent driving, Xiaomi chose NVIDIA;The chip in the smart cockpit, Xiaomi chose Snapdragon;All kinds of control parts of the body and chassis are mostly from the traditional first-class automobile manufacturers in Germany, such as Bosch, ZF, Schaeffler, etc.
According to public information, on December 26, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the technical requirements for adjusting the reduction and exemption of vehicle purchase tax for new energy vehicle products.
Xiaomi SU7 two cars (including the standard version and MAX version) have been included in the first batch of new energy vehicle model catalogue for vehicle purchase tax reduction, product models are BJ7000MBEVA1, BJ7000MBEVR2, the name of the manufacturer is "Beijing Automotive Group off-road vehicle***."
When introducing Xiaomi Su7, Lei Jun, chairman and founder of Xiaomi Group, even bluntly said, you don't shout 90,009 anymore, it's impossible, don't shout 140,009 anymore.
Huang Jiangji (KK), the former co-founder of Xiaomi, said on his social platform: "Watching Mr. Lei proudly and seriously introduce the various details of this latest work on stage, I realized that it was time to replace my 992 Turbo S with Xiaomi Su7. ”
Lei Jun said that SU is the abbreviation of SPEED ULTRA, high performance is Xiaomi's gene, and the first car represents Xiaomi's car-making concept: technology X ecology, Xiaomi SU7 is positioned as a "C-class high-performance ecological technology car".
Lei Jun added that Xiaomi chose the first car as a sedan because it is more difficult to make a sedan than an SUV, and Xiaomi chose the most difficult road, and the sedan is the "spirit of the times". Xiaomi's first car has already been mass-produced in small batches, and it will be officially released in a few months, and a lot of testing will be carried out to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
Xiaomi's first car will be based on the technical architecture of Xiaomi Auto Modena, the overall volume is larger than the Model 3, the Xiaomi Su7 is 4997mm long, the wheelbase is 3000mm, the height of the car is 1440m, and the acceleration of 100 meters is 2In 78 seconds, it can reach a top speed of 265 kilometers per hour.
Xiaomi has chosen the "self-developed" and "self-built" solutions in terms of the two core components of the first car, the motor and the battery, respectively.
The "Xiaomi Super Motor V8S" developed by Xiaomi Auto has a speed of 27,200 rpm, Lei Jun said: "The Xiaomi Super Motor has been carrying out technical pre-research, using carbon fiber laser winding process, and the laboratory pre-research has achieved 35,000rpm. ”
As for the battery, another core component of new energy vehicles, Xiaomi chose the 800V high-voltage 101kWh Kirin battery provided by CATL, with a CLTC range of 800 kilometers and support for super fast charging, which can achieve a range of 200 kilometers in 5 minutes and 510 kilometers in 15 minutes.
As a key battery pack factory, Xiaomi chose to build itself and applied for 132 patents in the field of battery technology, of which 65 were authorized.
Lei Jun said that die-casting technology is an industry trend, Xiaomi has also invested a lot of resources in die casting.
According to the recruitment information on Xiaomi's official website, the company has a talent demand for production managers, workshop safety engineers and lean engineers in automobile workshops in Beijing, and there are also more employment needs in stamping, die-casting, die-casting molds, die-casting machining, body, painting, sheet metal and other related positions in automobile production. **
The rear floor on the Xiaomi car SU7 uses the "72 in one" integrated die-casting technology. The part is made from a die-casting island using Xiaomi's 9,100-ton large die-casting technology. Lei Jun likened his die-casting island to an "industrial behemoth", weighing 1,050 tons, covering an area of 840 square meters, and the entire die-casting island was about the size of two basketball courts.
At present, the definition of smart cars has been gradually standardized, and the scheme of 8295 chip + lidar + 800V high voltage is one of the representatives.
The smart cockpit of Xiaomi cars uses the Snapdragon 8295 chip, with 2 NVIDIA Orin chips that can achieve 508TOPS computing power, as well as 1 lidar, 11 high-definition cameras, 3 millimeter-wave radars, and 12 ultrasonic radars.
Based on this set of intelligent driving hardware platform, Xiaomi has integrated three self-developed technologies, including a new generation of technology platform BEV, Transformed, and the full integration of the occupied network into the large model, which can automatically eliminate the impact of rain and snow on the occupied network and effectively improve the recognition efficiency.
Lei Jun said that Xiaomi Auto's algorithm does not rely on high-precision maps, and can generate high-precision road topologies in real time through large models, comparable to high-definition maps, accurately generate driving guidance lines, and can bypass road construction sections. The goal is to open 100 cities by the end of next year.
In terms of ecological interconnection, it is Xiaomi's advantageous range——The surging OS released before is on the car, forming a "people, car, home" ecological closed loop in Lei Jun's mind, the system interactive experience is the same as that of the mobile phone, and the application of the Xiaomi tablet can be seamlessly put on the car, supporting the seamless flow of application use.
Xiaomi Auto officially said that in terms of ecological applications, Xiaomi surging OShas been put on the car, the system interaction experience is consistent with that of mobile phones, and the application of Xiaomi tablets can be seamlessly put on the car, supporting the seamless flow of application use.
In addition, the Xiaomi cariot ecosystem supports the first batch of 1000+ Mijia devices, which can be interconnected without password with the same account, and support the setting of automation scene connection. In addition, it provides a unified and standardized hardware interface, supports CarPlay, AirPlay and iPad on the iOS ecosystem, and is currently fully open to the three parties.
According to Lei Jun, at present, the first phase of Xiaomi Auto R&D investment exceeds 10 billion yuan, and the R&D team has more than 3,400 engineers, including thousands of top technical experts at home and abroad in key fields, and other Xiaomi cars rely on mature parts and technologies on the chain.
Long before entering the field of new energy vehicles, Xiaomi has already begun to lay out - investing in Xpeng Motors and NIO in the field of passenger cars. In addition to passenger cars, Xiaomi has also invested in companies such as Nine Company, Roborock and Artisan School, and its products cover fields such as electric bicycles, balance bikes and scooters.
In terms of the upstream of the industrial chain, the business scope of Xiaomi's invested companies focuses on intelligence and electrification, including automotive-grade chips, lidar, intelligent driving software solutions, drive-by-wire actuators, power batteries and battery raw materials, and precision transmission gears.
Xiaomi's LiDAR companies include key brands such as Hesai Technology and Suteng Juchuang, covering technical solutions such as mechanical, semi-solid-state and solid-state LiDAR.
Taking Xiaomi SU7 as an example, according to the investigation of the new consumer ** reporter, it was found that the body stability system ESP and brake controller DPB are all ready-made solutions provided by Dr.
The accelerometer is supplied by Continental Tewys, the four-piston fixed calipers and perforated ventilated brake discs are supplied by Brembo, the steering gear is Nexteer, the wheel bearings are Schaeffler, the air springs are supplied by the Tuopu Group, the CDC shock absorbers are ZF and the Benteler is the suspension components.
Relying on the layout of the industrial chain, for the use of mature first-class chain parts, based on the existing new energy vehicle hardware platform, Xiaomi Auto has shortened the gap with its competitors in time and space despite its late start.
Xiaomi is interested in benchmarking Tesla and Porsche, and Lei Jun indicated at the beginning of the press conference that the goal of Xiaomi Auto is to build a dreamcar comparable to Porsche and Tesla, which is also the marketing method chosen by many domestic brands recently. Among them, NIO ET9 benchmarks Mai**S-class, and Cialis Wenjie M9 benchmarks Bentley Bentayga.
The day before the technical communication meeting, Xiaomi deliberately paid tribute to BYD, Weilai, Xiaopeng, Ideal, Huawei and other car companies through light shows on landmark buildings such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. This has also sparked discussions between new and old car makers.
He Xiaopeng, founder of BYD and Xpeng Motors, and Li Bin, founder of NIO, all welcomed Lei Jun to join the car industry.
Xiaomi's other rival in the smartphone era, Meizu has long been sold to Geely Group, although it does not directly build cars, but it has joined the "car building" in another "form".
Previously, at the Meizu Autumn Unbounded Ecosystem Conference, Shen Ziyu, Chairman and CEO of Meizu, announced that in order to share the core capabilities of Flyme Auto with more ecological partners, it has brought a more open and convenient access platform for car companies, providing more flexible modular capabilities and quickly improving its intelligent cockpit experience with lower cost and higher efficiency.
The new car 007 released by Geely Group's brand Zeekr was also released recently, which coincided with the release date of Huawei's M9. Strangely, Geely is not on the list of tributes to Xiaomi this time.
Geely's senior vice president Yang Xueliang posted several Weibo posts on his social platform, expressing his welcome, "Come on, although it has not been saluted, it still welcomes new players with an open heart, good luck and h**e fun!".”
and then to Xiaomi's tribute to BYD in the group building, Yang Xueliang** commented: It's over, and said, "We don't compare with Xiaomi" and "Beyond 007, try it". Early this morning, Yang Xueliang said again: "If people always want to be tributed, it's over, but if people always want to pay tribute to others, it's useless." ”
Lei Jun said at the beginning of the press conference that he had a heart of awe for car building, and announced that he had already visited every car company after making a car, including traditional car companies, such as Changan, Geely, BAIC, etc., and wanted to pay tribute to all car companies. Through 15-20 years of striving to become one of the world's top five automobile manufacturers, we will do a good job of looking, driving, comfortable and safe mobile intelligent space.